Gardner Dozois Quotes

An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.

Gardner Dozois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StoryPotentialEggYouNeedSee

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

FailureCourageIdeasBetterPerson

It is accurate that the Walt Disney Company and ESPN are committed to diversity and inclusion. These are long-standing values that drive fundamental fairness while providing us with the widest possible pool of talent to create the smartest and most creative staff. We do not view this as a political stance but as a human stance.

John Skipper

CreativeDiversityTalentDriveView

I use this method to bring emotion into my performance. I recite my lines in English first, and then switch back to the original lines when shooting begins.

Amy Jackson

PerformanceBackEmotionFirstBring

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

PositiveNegativeElectricityMore

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

Sid Meier

TechnologyFunFindGamesFirstOur

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

LifeWorkBeautifulSomeoneRealUs

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

Michelle Yeoh

HomeGirlYouSometimesAwayBeing

To force a culture creates something that is inherently not sustainable. It does not evolve forward.

Julia Hartz

CultureForwardEvolveSomething

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh

LifeOurAcceptingOurselvesEntire

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Jose Andres

SuccessOpportunitiesThinkEnjoy

The Champions League is the most important competition; it's fundamental to be involved in it.

David Silva

CompetitionChampionsImportantMost

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Conrad Black

I AmProudPrisonSurvivingBeing

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