Will Gregory
Will Gregory
William Owen "Will" Gregory17 September 1959) is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead keyboardist, producer, and composer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp...
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I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.
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When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end.
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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
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Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.
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To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
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Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
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Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.
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Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.
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I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
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I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.
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In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
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Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
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Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.
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The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'