Jack Williamson Quotes
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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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.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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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.
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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.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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;.
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What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.
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Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.
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The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.
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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
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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.
