Antonya Nelson Quotes
I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
