Nikky Finney (Lynn Carol Finney) Quotes
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I know all the critics.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.
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I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
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I adore going to a very, very fancy restaurant - as long as the spirit is genuine, like it's their pleasure to welcome you.
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
