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Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

Robert J. Sawyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Future First Started Far Set Were

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

Life Doing Active Same Anything Got

I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

Family War World Born World War II

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

Food Safety Chain Everybody Involves

Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.

Mitch McConnell

Way Deal Like Negotiate Personally

My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.

Parents People Night House Always

I tend to worry about now, now, and I'll worry about then, then.

Worry Now About Then Tend

In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.

Colin Trevorrow

School High School California High

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Beauty Patriotism Rules Nothing Take

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.

Me Saying Thought Go Always Up

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

World Always Where Been Cure Immune

I grew up saying, 'I want to be famous,' but that was just the words that you used. As I got older, I understood that what I really meant was, 'I want to be successful.'

Ashleigh Murray

Words Saying Famous You Want Up

We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.

Love Children Light Start Thought

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