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Terry Pratchett Quotes

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

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Science Job Doctor Speak Think Down

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Courage Fish Go Flow Dead Opposite

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

Waiting Stand Perfect Mirrors Seemed

Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.

Success Power Balance Political Need

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.

Best Money Capitalism Down Boring

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

John Shelton Reed

Hate End Try Explain Up Hang

I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.

Fashion Think Artist Find Image

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Change Future Man Overwhelmed Shock

I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on 'Jerry Springer.' It was really gaudy.

Learning Stars History Woman People

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

Television Said More Film Far Than

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

Life Me Far Away Say Want True

I do have a problem with how 'Politico' has engaged in covering politics, especially on our side. I think it is tweet-happy, it is clickbait in many cases, and it's devoid of facts.

Politics Think Facts Problem Side

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

Myself Know Kind Write Need Out

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