Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.


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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
Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my caree...
NANCY MCKEON
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Depar...
NANCY MCKEON
One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Ear...
NANCY MCKEON
I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially ...
NANCY MCKEON
At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
NANCY MCKEON
I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
NANCY MARCHAND
I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the the...
NANCY MARCHAND
Acting was something I had to do.
NANCY MARCHAND
There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house,...
NANCY MARCHAND
I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, ...
NANCY MARCHAND
I loved junior golf.
NANCY LOPEZ
If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my na...
NANCY LOPEZ
Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
NANCY LOPEZ
I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
NANCY LOPEZ
I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
NANCY LOPEZ
My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
NANCY LOPEZ
The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
NANCY LOPEZ
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to sh...
NANCY LOPEZ
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But i...
NANCY LOPEZ
If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep t...
NANCY KRESS
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
NANCY KRESS
Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectua...
NANCY KRESS
The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hund...
NANCY KRESS
Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two peo...
NANCY KRESS
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,'...
NANCY KRESS
All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with n...
NANCY KRESS
The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characte...
NANCY KRESS
You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the sam...
NANCY KRESS
Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a...
NANCY KRESS
Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn ...
NANCY KRESS
There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s...
NANCY KRESS
The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these p...
NANCY KRESS
The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture t...
NANCY KRESS
When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can ...
NANCY KRESS