Frederik Pohl Quotes
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper... it's a disaster.
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As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
