Antonya Nelson Quotes
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
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I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.
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Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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The papers inclosed will shew that the nauseous project of amendments has not yet been either dismissed or despatched. We are so deep in them now, that right or wrong some thing must be done.
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Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
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Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.
