Nancy Kress Quotes

Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

Nancy Kress

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• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Reality
  • Thoughts
  • Now

• More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Real
  • Key

• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Real
  • Humble
  • Dignity

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Real
  • Me
  • Balance

• Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

  

  Randy West
  • Real
  • Game
  • Career

• With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • You
  • Story
  • Give

• Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Language
  • Story
  • DNA

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Fake

• For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Story
  • Memory

• It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Real
  • Me

• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Responsibility
  • Story

• My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Story

• The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Reality

• I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • People
  • Political
  • Reality

• But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Real
  • Money
  • Today

• People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Thought

• Single-use wearables are tough to sustain from a user perspective.

  

  Arvind Gupta
  • Single
  • Perspective

• Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Story