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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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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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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I am a just man.
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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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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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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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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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We are going through a period of profound political and economic change around the world, and American citizens showed that deep desire for change in voting to elect Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
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Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.
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Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.
