Nancy Kress Quotes
You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
Quotes to Explore
-
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
-
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
-
I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
-
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
-
The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
-
Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
-
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
-
I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
-
I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
-
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
-
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
-
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
-
The biggest killer of people is food.
-
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
-
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
-
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
-
I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
-
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
-
I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
-
I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.
-
Being ambiguously flamboyant really does help. I’ve had so many people come up to me and be like, ‘I felt OK to come out of the closet after you said this.’ When someone says that to me - it’s not an event I’ve ever been through, so I don’t know what to compare it to. I don’t think I even understand how important that is to someone’s life.
-
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
-
I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
-
You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
