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Stephen Hunter Quotes

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1946

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Age Culture Child People Ideas Rich

Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.

Power Justice People Action Superman

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Learning Today Time Bad Why More

I've found it to be true that sometimes a stranger can give you advice that stays with you, utter truths the closest people in your life have trouble saying.

Life People Saying Advice You True

The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.

Business Time Laugh Rejection You

Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.

Respect Bright Listen Ignorant Kids

At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I've gone gaunt.

Age Fat You Go Gone Either

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

John Singer Sargent

Light Dark Person Know Nothing Way

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

Control Windows Company Reason Air

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Democracy American Plan Mercy Way

I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

Success Fear Thought Because Saw

It's wrong for kids to be angry about something inanimate.

Angry Wrong Something Kids About

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

Science Time Space Society Need

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