Dallas Campbell Quotes
I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.
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I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.
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In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
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I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
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Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
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War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.
