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.Nancy Johnson
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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.
Nancy Kress -
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant -
I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
Tasha Smith -
I want to continue to be me and share with people.
J. R. Martinez -
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.
W. H. Auden
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
Kate McKinnon -
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.
N. Scott Momaday -
The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
Malcolm Mclaren -
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.
Pat Summitt -
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Malala Yousafzai -
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.
Jacki Weaver
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
Yogi Berra -
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
Karl Radek -
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.
Ingrid Betancourt -
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume -
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
Kate Winslet -
I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
Iggy Azalea
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I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture to just try to find the tone for the movie or the TV show.
Ramin Djawadi -
'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
Laura Esquivel -
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.
Nancy Johnson