L. E. Modesitt Quotes
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.L. E. Modesitt
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra -
I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
Gabriel Luna -
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam Johnson -
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Daniel De Leon -
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma -
A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
Umera Ahmad
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
Madchen Amick -
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg -
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
Barbra Streisand -
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
Cameron Mackintosh -
There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
Edgar Wright
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
Vanessa Hudgens -
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
Cal Hubbard -
I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
Jack O'Brien -
I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
Vin Diesel -
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
Ha-Joon Chang
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When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration.
James R. Clapper -
When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
Nandan Nilekani -
Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.
Karyn Kusama -
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural world. And there's definitely been a push to sort of study advanced math and kind of reawaken the love of advanced math.
Anya Kamenetz -
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
L. E. Modesitt