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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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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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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A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.
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At the end of the day, the only questions I will ask myself are... Did I love enough? Did I laugh enough? Did I make a difference?
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
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Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
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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.
