Nancy Holder Quotes
When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
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It's important to make teens realize the influence they have over others.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
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The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.
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When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?
