Gene Logsdon Quotes

Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?

Gene Logsdon

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• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Good
  • Work
  • Famous

• We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Struggle

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • God
  • Important
  • Thoughts

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Internet

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • People
  • Kids
  • Want

• I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go up and stroke it, but I wouldn't run screaming from it, either.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Up
  • Walking
  • Run

• Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Different
  • Home

• Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Heart

• The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Literature
  • Author

• I try to share a lot of my life on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, everything. I really like interacting with fans on Twitter and answering their questions and just getting to know them because it's cool for them to have people who are connecting with my music reach out and show interest.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I saw this cool interview with Amy Adams from when she did 'Enchanted' and played a princess, and when kids came up to her with no make-up and ripped jeans on, she said, 'I'm off duty. I'm an off-duty princess', and I thought that was quite sweet.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • She
  • Kids

• At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • School
  • Age

• Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • God

• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.

  

  Alan Patricof
  • Country

• Pakistan never valued Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan saab until English songwriter Peter Gabriel started collaborating with him. After that, the country suddenly realised that they have an amazing talent. This is the story of a lot of artistes there.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • English

• When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.

  

  Kelly Hu
  • Mother

• The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • Life
  • Career

• Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?

  

  Gene Logsdon
  • Country
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