Geoff Ryman Quotes

Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?

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• I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Community
  • Stop
  • Thought

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Respect
  • Passion
  • Proud

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Mathematics

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Stage
  • Material

• Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Jokes

• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Humble
  • Listen

• Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • People
  • Country
  • Sports

• There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Important
  • Band
  • Ever

• I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Find
  • Watch
  • Addicted

• I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Live
  • Age
  • Driving

• If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Danger
  • Rules

• Yo soy muy natural, muy sencilla muy honesta y pues siempre voy a ser. (Spanish for, I'm very real, very sincere, and honest, and that's how I'll always be.)

  

  Selena
  • Real
  • Spanish

• How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Author
  • Many
  • How

• I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • School

• We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

  

  David Elliott
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Family
  • Mother

• Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?

  

  Geoff Ryman
  • Time
  • Question