Antonya Nelson Quotes
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
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The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.
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Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
