Lisa Tuttle Quotes

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Lisa Tuttle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1952

Topics

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I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.

Jeff Dunham

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Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

Rob Walton

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I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

Miranda Kerr

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When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.

Luis von Ahn

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Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Diane von Furstenberg

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So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

Chris Hadfield

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That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

Clyde Tombaugh

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You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.

Alice Ripley

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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.

Persis Khambatta

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I demand excellence from the people I work with.

Ricky Schroder

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We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

Nikki Reed

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When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control.

Morten Tyldum

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