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David Brin Quotes

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Change Age Science Best People

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

Myself Growing Up Reading Thought

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Nature People Human Nature You Want

Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Change Learning Myself Space Me You

My pet peeves are people touching me a lot. Random dudes grabbing me and slapping me across the back. They're not doing it on purpose, but it's like they forget I'm a person. But you can't do anything about it. What are you going to do?

Pet Purpose People Me Random Doing

I have such a little face.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Perseverance Patience Passion You

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.

Love Say First Film Just Very

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

God Wisdom World Loving Way Become

The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there.

Hope Impossible Behavior Country

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Funny People Think Know Class Clown

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Women Day Men Anger One Day Humour

People wrote about me and started calling me a star, and I just hated it. There are aspects of it that are great - I mean, you can ring up any restaurant and get in, can't you.

Tim Pigott-Smith

Great People Me Restaurant You Ring

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