Philip K. Dick Quotes

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

Philip K. Dick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982

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The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It didn't really hit me how important it was until I drew a scene early-on in the book that featured Superman crossing paths with a giant, intergalactic space armada.

Jim Lee

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My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

Jo Brand

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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

John Boyd Orr

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I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.

Jenny Packham

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I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

Michael Cristofer

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Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Tony Harrison

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A few years after I finished skating, someone asked where my medals were. I'm like, 'In a suitcase somewhere.' Now they're nicely displayed in an ice rink, but medals don't really mean that much. It's the experience, the story of the skating, the love.

Michelle Kwan

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I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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You could look at people in India and say we are manufacturing the cabin that is going to be a part of the U.S. President's helicopter. That's a pretty big deal, right? There are 11 other heads of state who we support, but the fact is, to me, it's a very large deal.

Louis R. Chenevert

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I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

Diane Sawyer

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My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.

Doreen Cronin

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I always have a different way of looking at things.

Brad Thor

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