Nancy Mairs Quotes
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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I love my brother. I miss my brother.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?
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Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.
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Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
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I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.
