Antonya Nelson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
-
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
-
The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
-
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
-
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
-
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
-
Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
-
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?'
-
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.
-
There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
-
We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
-
The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
-
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
-
Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
-
I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
-
I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
-
One of the other things that is going to help to give a boost to our economy is how we reform our state-owned enterprises. … The state-owned enterprises were sewers of corruption, a number of them. … There was rot, there was filth and there was deep corruption. We are rooting all that out right now.
-
Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.
