Nancy Kress Quotes

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• I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • God
  • Friends

• I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Process
  • Saying

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Marriage
  • Moral
  • Morality

• After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Support
  • Responsibility

• Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Great
  • Risk
  • Dictatorship

• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Wind
  • Solar

• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind

• I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Fun

• What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Great
  • Love
  • Energy

• We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Say
  • Screw
  • Hostess

• I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Think
  • Always
  • Very

• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Friends
  • Environment
  • Leadership

• I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Working
  • Fate
  • Guilty

• It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • History
  • Learn

• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Anything

• The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Free
  • Source
  • Major

• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • John Kerry
  • Windsurfing
  • Dilettante

• All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

  

  E. L. James
  • People
  • Kind
  • Mean

• Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Free

• If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • You
  • Chance
  • Analyst

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
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