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Jack McDevitt Quotes

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1935

Topics

Science Internet Missed Fiction Era

I was in Puerto Rico going to school, and it was very jarring for me. 'Traumatic' is the only way that I can say it. Kids were making fun of me: 'Oh, you're a Yankee.' And I acted out a lot. A lot. But looking back, and through a little bit of therapy, everything I am has to do with that time.

Time School I Am Fun Looking Back

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Mother Mirror Me Crazy Drive Saying

I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.

Jerrod Carmichael

Moment Walk Fame Want Kind Hot

I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Good Women Health Job Support Care

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

Creativity You Yes Define Then

I think that business should be a reflection of who a person truly is.

Business Reflection Think Person Who

Descriptions of inner, spiritual processes are much more liable to misunderstanding than descriptions of events in the physical world. Such misunderstandings arise easily because the life of the soul is in constant movement and because we fail to bear in mind that the life of the soul is very different from life in the physical world.

Life Soul Spiritual Mind World Bear

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

World More Things Use Many Any

I see myself in a Cleveland Browns uniform and a return for Josh Gordon. Hopefully this time, the biggest and the best I've ever been. Really looking forward to giving the people what they deserve, not letting anyone down, myself included. And exceeding their expectations.

Time Myself Best Looking Forward

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable.

Diane Mott Davidson

You Goal Trouble Nice Say Happen

When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.

Me Mom Small Born Fairy Little

I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.

Experience Angel Nobody Know Beyond

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