Nancy Kress Quotes
For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.
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Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
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There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
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I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year I went to school in a pirate suit - I just didn't care. I'm not like the cool girls - I'm the other girl. The one that's basically a nerd, but proud of that.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
