Antonya Nelson Quotes
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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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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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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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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Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
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Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.
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With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.
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Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.
