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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
-
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
-
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
-
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
-
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
-
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.
-
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
-
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
-
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
-
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.
-
With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
-
With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
-
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
-
For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
-
I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.
-
We learned within Trailblazer that when we asked industry for something they had or something close to what they already had, they were remarkable in providing us a response, an outcome, ... When we asked them for something that no one had yet invented, they weren't any better at inventing it than we were in doing it ourselves.
-
There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.
-
I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
-
So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.
-
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.
