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Nick Sagan Quotes

It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.

Nick Sagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1970

Topics

Light Beach Talking Back Over Head

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

John Banville

Love Beautiful Own Books Objects

If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.

John Morgridge

Time Money Impact Horizon You Look

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Robert Kiyosaki

Experience People Learn Bad Street

Trump is like an eater of worlds from an 'Avengers' movie, but there seem to be different rules for him. What are Twitter doing, for example? He's constantly breaking their rules, the sort of stuff other people get thrown off for.

John Tiffany

People Be Different Doing Rules Him

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Stephen Sondheim

Live Best Theatre Why More Bring

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

Amy Cuddy

Family Moment Present Down Now Out

One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.

Joseph Brodsky

Language Next Line Because Poem Who

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

Cherry Jones

Work Lazy Take Like Playwright

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

Chris Wooding

You Horror Originality Big Away Get

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.

Timothy Simons

Family Brother Sister Photographer

As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.

Richard Corliss

Mother Daughter Children Choose Mama

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

Renee Fleming

Education Music Parents Singing Over