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fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury
fiction imagine terrible
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt
fiction adequate demand
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence". R. D. Laing
fiction veils liquor
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. Poppy Z. Brite
fiction strange journalism
Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism. P. J. O'Rourke
fiction century novel
I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels. Ken Follett
fiction detectives christie
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Kazuo Ishiguro
opened opens parents
A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens. Sue Leibold
opened owner seen time tonight
If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling. David Cross
opened record
The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience. Paul Horn
opened warehouse
We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.
quite
Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore. Brad Childress
quite saw seen site
I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here. George Ryan
quite
I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe. Maisie Williams
quite swing
I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch. Lena Headey
quite
She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green. Rudyard Kipling
science mathematical-logic ideas
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell
science deities evolution
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! Edward Young
science lines way
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity. Aristotle
science two fire
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.
science
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. Seth MacFarlane
science men doe
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. Stephen Jay Gould
science forget lost
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost. Alfred North Whitehead
science criticism doe
The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth. Albert Einstein
science may pleasure
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.
worked
I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features. James Marsh
work writers
Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work. Kent McCord
work avoidance
I often work by avoidance. Brian Eno
work-out
Don't work out, work in. Billy Connolly
work-out energy motivated
The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results. Elisabeth Harnois
work-out feel-good feelings
Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.
work
I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that. Aubrey Peeples
work
We do not want to work off of assumptions.
work
Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished. Ashley Wagner