Rick Yancey Quotes

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

Rick Yancey

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GreatArtQuestionsWayNeverAwe

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Jean Rostand

ScienceMenWorthyBeingUsMade

I spend a lot of time sizing up a tree before I fell it. Once it's down, I clear away the brush around the tree before I start cutting it into lengths so I won't trip and lose my balance with the chain saw running.

Sue Hubbell

TimeTreeBalanceStartLoseDown

I always hate when, like, my favorite performer has a boring moment. Especially when they got mad hits.

Travis Scott

MomentHateMadBoringAlwaysGot

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

ScienceActingWrongNeedGoing

My law degree has always been incredibly helpful.

Judy Smith

LawAlwaysDegreeHelpfulBeen

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.

Lisa Kudrow

FunnyMeThoughtYouWhiteHug

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

Jason Silva

PeopleIdeasAestheticWonderWant

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

YouCreateRealizeGenocideUsGas

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

Anton du Beke

YouGoThingsDealJust

I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.

Shane West

MeNewNeverGunsFiredBefore

It's not that I don't enjoy fighting. I don't enjoy the circumstances around fighting.

Mark Hunt

FightingEnjoyCircumstancesAround

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

Martin Amis

YouWillMoreInterviewTellFar

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