David Brin Quotes

Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won't necessarily take you all the way. Talent, nepotism, influence, and pure luck play a huge part.

David Brin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1950

Topics

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I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do.

Ann Nocenti

BestThinkFindingYouWantKind

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.

Sue Monk Kidd

PainMeVoiceGivingCreateWant

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Romola Garai

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One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

Mitch Landrieu

MyselfTogetherPeopleCityBlack

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.

Judith Butler

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I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.

Jon Jones

MyselfManBetterReachPlaceNever

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

Chuck Close

WorkSomeoneTalkAlwaysPleasure

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

Antoine Fuqua

LifeThinkYouArtistKnowExplore

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

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A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Thomas Malthus

ManMeWillBecomeHimTell

Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.

Ryan Coogler

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I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

Kelly Reilly

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