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Samuel R. Delany Quotes

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

Samuel R. Delany

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1942

Topics

Aesthetic Create Entertaining Object

You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and the parents question why they would want to do that, then it makes it very difficult.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Home Parents Saying You Go Want

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

John Jakes

Gold Treasure Surrender Land First

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Jeff Koons

Moment Control You Finish Up Views

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

Michael Cimino

War Nothing Out Pretty Bravery Much

I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

Sia

Stars Writing Want Years See Been

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

Rony Abovitz

Life Support Me Mom Engineering Go

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

Robert Wilson

I Am Theatre Doing Kind Never Would

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Rupert Everett

Good Me You Authority Always Tell

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

Mike Hawkins

Goals Impossible You Seem Only Them

It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it's just about understanding that sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to get back on my bike for week.'

Lizzie Armitstead

Bike Understanding Week Back Want

I consider myself extremely fortunate, and I am more happy for all the attention that I constantly garner.

Disha Patani

Myself I Am Happy Attention More Am

What's more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

Cobie Smulders

Doing More Shower Awkward Than