Homer Hickam Quotes

When I was a West Virginia lad of 17, I met a Massachusetts lad of 42 by the name of John F. Kennedy. At the time, I was in a bright orange suit that I had just purchased to wear to the 1960 National Science Fair, where I hoped my home-built rockets would win a medal. Kennedy was in West Virginia trying to win the state's presidential primary.

Homer Hickam

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1943

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I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Matthew McConaughey

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Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

Ann Leckie

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I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

Jeff Lindsay

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As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Roger Penrose

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Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

Rory Kinnear

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I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

Roy Blunt

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I've been amazed by the success of 'The Great British Bake Off.' I've been 'rediscovered' at the age of 76. When I was asked to be a judge, I said I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to shout like some other television judges. I also said I was a very bad bread maker, so would the programme makers find someone to help on the bread scene?

Mary Berry

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I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Martin Parr

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Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

Louis MacNeice

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I guess I'm growing up in the film world.

Devon Sawa

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To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Claire Messud

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Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.

Brandon Stanton

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