Jane Goldman Quotes
I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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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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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way.
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And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.
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I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.
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Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.
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I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.
