Annalee Newitz Quotes
'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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'Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?''We won’t know until we try,' Naqi said. Any other answer would have been politically hazardous: too much optimism and the politicians would have started asking just why the expensive project was needed in the first place. Too much pessimism and they would ask exactly the same question.
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I'm not a big fan of mediocre.
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I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.
