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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In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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Just know what's inside your food.
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
