Antonya Nelson Quotes

I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

Antonya Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1961

Topics

LifeWorkThinkYouPersonWant

Vegas is the city of temptation. I think, perhaps, it is an experiment by NASA. If we're going to send people to Mars, how will we create false economies and cultures to satisfy them? Vegas has the answer. People go there when they've nothing left to lose.

Robert Lepage

PeopleCityThinkVegasLoseCreate

I love winter clothes. For me, it is all about choosing great materials and getting the right cut for your body - and then styling it right. For example, I love an oversized manly jacket, but I'll team it with some girly heels.

Jeanne Damas

LoveWinterGreatMeTeamClothes

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Andy Rooney

ComputersDoneNeedThingsEasier

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

Tommy Lee

StrengthUpside DownYouDownTwice

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.'

Tracy Anderson

GreatSchoolTalentYouBodyWay

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

Trey Anastasio

WorkBusinessMusicTogetherGoal

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Rita Dove

PoetryLanguagePowerfulMost

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Ron Moody

LifeFatherStyleGenerationUncle

When someone hears that I've written a book about 1897, I'm usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, 'Was there even an L.A. back then?' A lot of people don't even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything.

Liz Goldwyn

ImaginationPeopleCityBookThink

There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.

Jason Aldean

MusicStyleMyselfPeopleChurch

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

Joseph Wambaugh

TimeBookWriteNonfictionGetSued

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Joseph Addison

FatherManWillOthersCruelMisery

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