Leslie Fiedler Quotes
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
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I'm a Scorpio. I have different mood swings.
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I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar enough to us not to clash. In other words, I'm not, it's very unlikely, in fact, let's say impossible, for you to say the situation in which you and I are in right now, relative to the machinery that is capturing this.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
