Nancy Kress Quotes

If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

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• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  

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• I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

  

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• I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

  

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• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

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• I've dealt with a lot in my life.

  

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• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
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• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.

  

  Uday Kotak
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• If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

  

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• I am a Westerner of Westerners!

  

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• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Future
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• I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Loved
  • Tattoos

• If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.

  

  Ze Frank
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• I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.

  

  Kate Voegele
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• The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

  

  Questlove
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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  

  Ted Turner
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• I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
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• In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

  

  Chris Campanioni
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• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
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• If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

  

  Nancy Kress
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