Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

Theodore Sturgeon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 26, 1918 - May 8, 1985

Topics

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Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Anita Loos

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I really fell in love with Africa.

Jean M. Auel

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The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best.

Michael Connelly

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I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

Jason Reitman

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I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

Johnny Rivers

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At age 14, my paternal grandfather fled Poland to escape the pogroms that killed tens of thousands of European Jews. He worked full-time for a cobbler in Boston, making his way to California and eventually starting his own business in Taft - the Goldman Oil Supply Company.

Dianne Feinstein

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I'm not ill. I'm healthy. I'm not going anywhere. We've got Super Bowls to win.

Bob McNair

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People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.

Alice Waters

PeopleEatingSickWayBecomeAware

Indians have become very demanding. Gone are the days where you could get away with power outages.

Piyush Goyal

PowerYouBecomeDaysGoneGet

I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.

Phyllis Smith

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What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

Timothy Noah

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