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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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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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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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
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The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
