Nancy Jo Sales Quotes
I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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I love writing songs.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
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Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.
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It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.
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I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.
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The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.
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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
