Cory Doctorow Quotes
I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
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I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.
