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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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 went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
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Once the flames begin to catch the wind will blow it higher, oh Biko, Biko.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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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.
