Greg Egan Quotes

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

Greg Egan

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Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

Angela Duckworth

RealityEarlyNeedWithoutFragile

My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.

Amruta Khanvilkar

StrengthWeaknessActingEmotions

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.

Shinya Yamanaka

LifeImprovementQualityThink

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

Mary Lou Retton

WalkYouCockyGeorgiaOwnLike

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

Mike Mills

PositiveRelationshipHappyMeWorld

I do work really hard to be nice to people. Well, actually, I think it doesn't take much effort to be nice to people, so why shouldn't we all be nice to each other? But I do appreciate very much a woman who is in a position of power who is unapologetic about her position and her belief in her own abilities.

Miriam Shor

WorkPowerWomanEffortPeopleNice

I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.

Joyce DeWitt

FriendTimeWordsStupidThinkLong

I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.

Jonathan Franzen

PositivePeopleMeUpsetDifferent

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Anzia Yezierska

ManRedHorsePovertyWhiteLike

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Archibald MacLeish

LifeBusinessTimeLawDignitySame

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Pierre de Fermat

ManI AmWorldMoreThanDistant

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash.

Phil Robertson

EyesBlackWhitePersonTrashNever

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