Antonya Nelson Quotes

I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

Antonya Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.

Joanna Going

I AmIrishItalianFrenchCanadian

I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.

Jerry Heller

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Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

Tom Kitt

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Obama has so mismanaged the economy.

Mitt Romney

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I always want to take on the giants.

Christen Press

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You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Bryan Singer

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I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

Arianna Huffington

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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

Annie Besant

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There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

Piers Morgan

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I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

Philip Reeve

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The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

Peter Coyote

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