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Nell Freudenberger Quotes

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Nell Freudenberger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1975

Topics

Funny Research Looking Information

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

World Rich Labor Kind Taxes Trade

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Age Alcohol Friends Now Never Used

When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

Life Live Day Control Feel You

Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.

Home Busy Year Pilot Two Role

All I know is Karen is besties with Donny and Melania.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Michelle Bachelet

History Me Democracy Political Task

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Love Support People Understanding

I love compliments; of course I do. Everybody wants to receive compliments. But the team is the important thing, and I'd rather win things as a team than finish up with individual honours.

Love Team Win Important Finish Up

If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.

Great You Out Beat NFL Going

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

William Morris Hunt

Myself Feel You Know More Canvas

From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar roles.

Myself I Am Happy Think Pressure

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

Scott Westerfeld

Design Decisions You Early Sometimes

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