David G. Hartwell Quotes
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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I don't do my own Instagram.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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But the old man had provided his kids with one priceless gift: He’d encouraged them to read, and he didn’t bother too much about the content, subscribing to the theory that good books ultimately speak for themselves.
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By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.
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I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.
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Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
