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Edward M. Lerner Quotes

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Edward M. Lerner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1949

Topics

Time Travel Universe Time Travel Our

In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.

Effort Internet Group Run President

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

Politics Well Aware Pragmatism

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Revolution Thought Always Content

I have not been recognized.

Been Recognized

I think that, as a filmmaker, you're always making the same film, regardless of how many different stories you tell. This is the case for me, whether I'm making documentaries or fiction films.

Me Think You Always Tell Fiction

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

Change Time Yourself Child You Way

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.

Miller Williams

Time Best Spiritual Space Writing

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Eyes World Someone Enough You Build

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

Education Love Truth Knowledge City

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

Winter Start Done Skateboarding

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Play More Never Ordinary Been Would

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

Washington Kind Hollywood Thug Show

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