Nick Sagan Quotes

For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.

Nick Sagan

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FutureScienceBestMoneyLooking

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Joan Cusack

FriendBestBest FriendNeverQuirky

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ChildrenEarlyNothingUpShould

Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot - like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit.

Stella Maxwell

TimeBornLostNewKindergarten

The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.

Steve Nash

YouPlayPlayoffsJustWhoFront

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Roger Waters

NeverLikeFeltPassengerConfess

I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.

Mary Beard

ScienceSchoolStartYouChoose

I had a full-time driver, or I would take my Bentley. I'd have big houses in the Hamptons for the summer, taking seaplanes or helicopters out. I did a lot of flying privately to Miami. A lot of shopping.

Molly Bloom

ShoppingFlyingMiamiSummerOut

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Miranda Otto

AlwaysBigThingHadBig Thing

I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.

Lisa McMann

TearsRememberYearBackDownBurn

I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

Jay DeMarcus

PerformanceSongThinkBetterMagic

You only hear the horror stories - that after a baby, you never get your body back - but it's not true; it depends on your life beforehand.

Doutzen Kroes

LifeBabyYouBodyBackTrue

I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.

Deepak Chopra

FaithSkillsVisionaryPresidentHe

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