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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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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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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My method seems to change to everything, especially when you get older. You have more of a resonance to be able to grab to. When you're younger, you have these big boundaries because you don't know how to get you to where you are. When you get older, you have a few tricks that you can pull off.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
