Gardner Dozois Quotes

When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty straightforward - there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.

Gardner Dozois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 23, 1947

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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Robert Mankoff

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Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.

Trent Reznor

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For some reason, I skipped the original 'Star Wars.' I don't know why, and I'm very embarrassed.

Tom Holland

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Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

Rosalind Wiseman

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'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

Robert Zemeckis

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Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.

Chris Borland

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I like being busy.

Christopher Lloyd

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I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'

Brandon Flowers

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Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

Persis Khambatta

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I grew up listening to such strong female solo artists. I love Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears.

Tiffany Hwang

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