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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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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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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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.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
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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.
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I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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With that tour, I feel we really pushed ourselves to the limit. I know that we regained a lot of critical credibility; that's nice but to be honest that wasn't something that I really thought about very much.
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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.
