Nancy Kress Quotes
The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'Nancy Kress
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
Kate Winslet -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
E. Stanley Jones -
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Patrick Leahy -
Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
Carine Roitfeld -
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
V. S. Naipaul
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell -
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
Adam Hochschild -
I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson -
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
Danica Patrick -
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Walt Whitman -
Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco -
I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
Fortune Feimster -
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
Kate Beckinsale -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
Ted Cruz -
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas Aquinas -
Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.
Kate Klise -
Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
Garry Hynes -
The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
Nancy Kress