Nancy Etchemendy Quotes
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
