Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it’s all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing. Mary Roach Read Quote
As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It’s about the work and only the work. George Hickenlooper Read Quote
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it’s growing or crumbling. Ric Ocasek Read Quote
It sounds pretentious to say I ‘divide’ my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
I didn’t care what people thought of me, that I was getting better, pushing myself to get better. Those are the things I concentrate on. I don’t concentrate on what everyone else was saying. Robbie Lawler Read Quote
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Martha Nussbaum Read Quote
The Internet is working because it’s free and open, and there’s no discrimination. Without these rules, ISPs could treat content differently based on commercial interests or even ideology. Brian Schatz Read Quote
