Nancy Kress Quotes
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
