John Brunner Quotes
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
Quotes to Explore
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
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When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.
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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
