Nancy Kress Quotes

Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

Nancy Kress

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 20, 1948

Topics

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I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.

Joanna Lumley

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I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

John Frusciante

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I want every dish to be a ten.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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AOL invented social networking.

Jeff Bewkes

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If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact.

Mary H.K. Choi

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I didn't have the same biases on Trump that others had. I read his books and saw a man who had a strong mindset, a track record of succeeding, and who would make strong and sometimes offensive comments as a way to get media attention.

Mike Cernovich

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People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Lorna Luft

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And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

Juice Newton

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I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

Jordin Sparks

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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.

Don Ameche

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In third grade, my teacher asked me to read in front of the class. I was so touched because that really was the first acting I had ever done, just reading in front of the class. And I was so amazed with the fulfillment I got from being in front of people.

Cloris Leachman

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