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.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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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.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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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.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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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.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.
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Good things, you can't rush into them.
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I want a baby of my very own one day, but it seems that my being male is a BIIIIT of a problem.
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I could go speak to people for the next three years every day if I wanted to, but I'm not going to make my child do that.
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
