Virginia Postrel Quotes

'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

FearScienceLongPlaceRunFirst

There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.

Joel Salatin

NatureTechnologyFoodBetterBig

I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.

John Carroll Lynch

DreamsMoviesActorBecomeNever

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Matt Smith

GreatSacrificePreparationYou

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

Steve Carell

FunCityCollegeChicagoGroupTry

I'm not frightened of what people will think an more. Because, you know, when you're a teenager or in your early 20s, you're always frightened of what people will think.

Rosamund Pike

PeopleThinkYouEarlyKnowWill

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

Jason Mraz

LifeAttitudeExperienceThoughts

You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.

Debbie Reynolds

Never Give UpBestYouBeyondNever

I'm basically a gift-giver.

Christie Hefner

Basically

The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.

Norman Foster

StrengthDeterminationTimeDaySame

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

Mark Thomas

LovePoliticsPeopleComedyDoing

I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and if there are various fractures that happen in the story, then that's just the very thing that the story is as opposed to my looking for avenues of difference in one story. They just really do exist. For me, anyway.

Hilton Als

BestMeLookingStoryThinkDoing

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

LifeFatherMeSisterWayTry

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