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Geoff Ryman Quotes

It's my experience that scientists can find it difficult to understand the needs of scriptwriters or storytellers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1951

Topics

Experience Find Understand Difficult

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

Work People Random Down Know Group

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

Leadership Long Crisis Vietnam

I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.

Life Me Library Grow My Life House

Do we have to regulate derivatives? Yes, we do. 'Cause when I did this in my investments, frankly, no one knew who could pay who. But derivatives have an important place in our economy.

Place Important Economy Pay Yes Who

I'm an artist through and through.

In Montana, no one, including out-of-state corporate executives, has been excluded from spending money - or 'speaking' - in our elections. Any individual can contribute. All we require is that they use their own money, not corporate money that belongs to shareholders, and that they disclose who they are.

Money Individual Own Shareholders

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Community World Road Party Want Map

I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.

Juan Diego Florez

Me Singing Voice Done Lucky High

I think our Founding Fathers, they would disagree, but they weren't disagreeable. They didn't hate each other; they didn't want to kill each other off.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Hate Think Want Disagree Off Would

When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.

Clayton M. Christensen

Path Assumptions You Career True

If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.

Sad Day Happy Me Writing Song

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

William Randolph Hearst

Mistake Afraid Like Your Readers

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