Nancy Johnson Quotes
You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
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You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.
