Nancy Pickard Quotes
I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.
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The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.
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The world is just waiting to be skated.
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Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
