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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Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
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The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.
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I look with wonder at that which is before me.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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You have to live the mission... love what you do.
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
