J. M. Coetzee Quotes

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

J. M. Coetzee

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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

Ted Yoho
- Country
- Money
- American
While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

Ted Dekker
- Culture
- Church
- Moving
How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

Caitriona Balfe
- People
- Life
- Love
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

J. Michael Straczynski
- Thinking
- Character
- Worry
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

G. Willow Wilson
- Job
- Write
- Ever
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.

Nathaniel Philbrick
- Good
- Thinking
- Evil