Doreen Cronin Quotes
I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
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The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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You never monkey with the truth.
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That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
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If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.
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I feel that my message of Jesus and His finished work at Calvary has delivered grace to us which is unearned and unmerited favor.
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I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.
