Sheri S. Tepper Quotes

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Sheri S. Tepper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 16, 1929

Topics

ScienceMeIdeasYouEscapeKind

Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Melvin Van Peebles

RestWeekNobodyMoviesWayEat

Directing, what little I know, is as much knowing when to step in as when to step out.

Robert Lorenz

StepKnowKnowingOutLittleMuch

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

Solange Knowles

ThinkTalkingArtistMoreOutJust

I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

Simon Baker

BrokenMeBelieveLovedUnderstand

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

Tony Gilroy

CommunityIntelligenceMovingWorld

I look to James Franco with complete admiration. He makes interesting choices. Whether right or wrong, that is up to someone else to decide, but I think what he does is brilliant.

Tom Cullen

ChoicesThinkInterestingSomeoneUp

You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.

Robert Boswell

FunnyTimeEndYouFeelingGenuine

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Christian Lous Lange

BattleNowEngageAgainstMust

When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'

Brian Fallon

WorldAmericanKnowBandSeeOut

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Brandon Sanderson

WorkLoveLongHoursI Love

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.

Susan Orlean

WorkFindRatherThanOtherWhile

Obviously I'm delighted I'm a grandfather, but I guess it takes a little while to digest. You start thinking, 'Oh, I'm half-way over the natural life span. So this is the last bit, and I'd better enjoy it.'

Sean Bean

LifeStartThinkingBetterEnjoy

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