I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.
George R. R. Martin
Recitation: by Male by Female
I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
Joanna Newsom
SchoolHigh SchoolYearHighBeing
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
John Drinkwater
LifeExperienceMenPoetryDesire
Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others, like me, have backgrounds in science and technology journalism.
Robert J. Sawyer
TechnologyScienceMeJournalism
For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.
Robert Kiyosaki
DeathEnoughBodyDownHumanSystem
I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
Jean Piaget
ConversationWrongAimRightAnswers
After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities.
Tony Jaa
ShadowPeopleMeDoingYouMovies
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul
PurposeGovernmentI AmSocietyFree
Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'
Mary Roach
DayCuriousPeopleMeThinkYou
When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
Michele Bachmann
MePoliticalGenderPlayingMaybe
My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.
Mindy McCready
MePersonKnowLittlePersonaBears
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
Joseph Stiglitz
WorkDayLogicEvery DayObservation
When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.
Jonathan Van Ness
MomentBlessedGoHavingUnrest
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