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Frederik Pohl Quotes

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 26, 1919 - September 2, 2013

Topics

Science People Me Research Never

I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans.

Jerry Weintraub

Independent Democrats Republicans

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Jessica Sanchez

Everyone Idol Stuck Understood Hear

If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

Today Tomorrow Clothes Laundry New

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Music Me Ideas Fly Wings Rock

Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Dog I Am Irony Seems Basic Most

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Luciano Pavarotti

Life Music Passion Place My Own Own

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

Together Ideas You Nobody Way How

I wear what I want.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Integrity Man Greatness Wealth Him

I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Accounting Accountant Test Never

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

Work Time Looking Thinking Drawing

I can't cook a thing.

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