Nancy Kress Quotes
Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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I don't think about the media.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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When we don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, 'Oh, I'm so lonely. I want a date,' or something like that. But I think the biggest love we're all searching for is the love for one's self.
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Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.
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It's never too late to try to end a conflict.
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Penises, toe knuckles, bellybuttons, vaginas. Sam felt the expansiveness of his own desires as he sensed, stretching away on all sides of him, an endless forest of jutting elbows, erect penises, stiff nostril hairs, clitoral flaps, quivering eyelids, testicles round as ice cream scoops, and pert feisty nipples – a wonderful wilderness he could get lost in and explore for the rest of his life.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
