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A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten.


Colonel Sanders
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
Rita Dove
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I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.


Ed Westwick
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I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
Nalo Hopkinson
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The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.
Colleen Atwood
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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
Armistead Maupin
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I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.
Norman Finkelstein
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I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.
Marilynne Robinson
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There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.
Neill Blomkamp
Tags: Science People Me
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.


Billy Sunday
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.


Victor Hugo
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.


Damon Lindelof
I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
Sandra Lee
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I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
Hector Hugh Munro
Tags: Me Like More
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
Nathan Myhrvold
Tags: Food Out Things
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If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.


Lucy Larcom
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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.


Wilkie Collins
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We never repent of having eaten too little.


Thomas Jefferson
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Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.


Ridley Scott