Nancy Kress Quotes
You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
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My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.
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You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
