Edward M. Lerner Quotes
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.

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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.
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We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue, for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
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Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.