Jack Williamson Quotes
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
Jack Williamson
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
Carlisle Floyd
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
Garry Marshall
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
Jack White
The White Stripes
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
Harold Pinter
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I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
Laura Donnelly
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
J. G. Ballard
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. Hinton
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
Veronica Franco
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Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.
Dennis Flanagan
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
Abhishek Bachchan
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
Immanuel Kant
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La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.
Simone de Beauvoir
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[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
Jack Williamson
