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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.


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NANCY PEARCEY The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
NANCY PEARCEY We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, w...
NANCY PEARCEY America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. ...
NANCY PEARCEY Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christian...
NANCY PEARCEY In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not...
NANCY PEARCEY I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I...
NANCY MITFORD I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
NANCY MITFORD To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
NANCY MITFORD Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
NANCY MITFORD I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager,...
NANCY MEYERS I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
NANCY MEYERS I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno...
NANCY MEYERS I really wanted to be a writer.
NANCY MEYERS My movies are not messed with by the studios.
NANCY MEYERS I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ...
NANCY MEYERS I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
NANCY MEYERS We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row ...
NANCY MEYERS There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You&#...
NANCY MEYERS Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all...
NANCY MEYERS I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all...
NANCY MEYERS I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Pr...
NANCY MEYERS Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
NANCY MCKEON I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
NANCY MCKEON