Pamela Sargent Quotes
A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
