Nancy Kress Quotes
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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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.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
