Magnus Larsson Quotes
While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.
Quotes to Explore
-
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
-
I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
-
The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
-
Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
-
When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
-
The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
-
By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
-
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
-
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
-
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.
-
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
-
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
-
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
-
I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
-
I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!
-
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
-
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
-
I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
-
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
-
The idea that you would not only exercise but that you would enjoy it is very difficult for me to understand. I just hate it.
-
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
-
There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.
-
While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.
