Ashoke Sen Quotes

The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit in your room and do the maths.

Ashoke Sen

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BeautyMathematicsYouNeedRoom

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

Jim Backus

HumorMindRealityGenerationSee

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

Melanie Mayron

SchoolLearnDoingYouWantMore

People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.

Sienna Miller

LoveHeartPeopleEdgeGoHead

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Tom Wilson

FutureGreatTimePresentRacing

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

Robert Barany

ReactionRightExperimentPatient

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

Robyn Hitchcock

WorkWantMoreSoftJustAfter

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

Ronald Frame

SchoolThinkYouImportantFiction

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Luke Bracey

EscapeEveryoneIdeaStoriesNeeds

I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning down a seven-figure check has a ripple effect on the budget, which has a ripple effect on the storytelling. The higher the budget gets, the fewer storytelling risks you're able to take.

Jason Blum

MoneyRisksPeopleWishDoingYou

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.

Jason Robert Brown

KingListeningWonderSayMy OwnUp

Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of the circles are oriented so that at the winter solstice, the sun will strike a standing stone.

Diana Gabaldon

WinterTimeSunStoneStrikeWill

While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time.

Chris Hadfield

DailyTimeSpaceControlInternet

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