Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.

Robert J. Sawyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 29, 1960

Topics

PeopleLawyersNumbersForensicBig

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

Jilly Cooper

FunnyBeautifulManCleverYesMust

There aren't a lot of entertainment-based mediums, the visual or recorded mediums, that empower the audience to go off the next day and create it themselves. You can't watch a movie or a show and the next day say, 'I want to make that.' You have to go to school.

Matthew Mercer

DaySchoolYouCreateGoWant

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Andy Williams

FinanceSchoolDriveTeachHow

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Tommy Mottola

SayingYouActingPersonTeach

I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.

Roger Clemens

New YorkWishYouReadyNewPlaces

Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.

Mary Pilon

TimeFootballGameDownToo Much

Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding something greater that connects all of us. Gospel music is about tapping into that.

Lizz Wright

MusicSingingSelfChurchFinding

I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game.

Lisa Lutz

GameRulesFairOpenOutAnything

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

Diablo Cody

PeopleThinkSatisfactionSometimes

I really do like Bruno Mars. I think he's very good. And I love Maroon 5.

Bridgit Mendler

LoveGoodThinkMarsLikeHe

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

Ali Krieger

LifeStruggleThinkGrowYouPerson

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Suzanne Collins

ManSchoolWarFaceYouGames

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