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fiction people science scientists tells time virtually visible
My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction stories knows
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction humor low pitch relief short throws trying
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
fiction fondness hard historical mind science wondrous
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd
male sort
I have a lot of male friends. That's good. But that's all I want right now. Keep that sort of thing away from me. Meg Tilly
male
It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement. O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
male ten writers
Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines. Sigourney Weaver
males found surveys
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. Banksy
male successful
To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that. Olly Murs
males night ran running scene three
Three males ran from the scene of the hit-and-run on the night it happened. We're working with two witnesses, so we have the three males that were running identified. Miguel Rosario
males needed
We needed more romantic-minded males to show up this weekend.
males sticks categories
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out. Bryan White
males film more-money
Of course, the male-directed films make more money. Catherine Hardwicke
students impossible programming
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. Edsger Dijkstra
students vision
I have a vision for the way students can be represented.
students dedicated teach
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. Annie Dillard
students sometimes poet
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this. Edward Hirsch
students
We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.
students hard
It's very hard to remain a student in life. Carol Kane
students three year
Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.
students
I've always loved being a student. Elizabeth Olsen
students tests
We want students to take these tests very seriously,
tend worse writers
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better. Edmund White
tend types
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. Timothy Noah
tend
I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something. Emily Mortimer
tendency weirder zombie
My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get. Chris Adrian
tend
I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring. Anthony Hopkins
tend
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters. Idina Menzel
tend work
I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
tend
All actors tend to be the same messed-up people. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
tend
When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting. Kat Edmonson