Fred Kaplan With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of. – Fred Kaplan Civil Quotes Game Quotes Reenactors Quotes Respect Quotes Subject Quotes Tragic Quotes War Quotes A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on. I’m not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from his lifetime to this year of his bicentennial. Some advice: Don’t try that unless you have at least five years available.
Rihanna At first, I didn’t really use anything in the social network world. I was so anti-social network, which is kind of ironic. I actually first started on a chat room on my fan site. – Rihanna
Greig Fraser When you have the blue screen, you’ve got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor. – Greig Fraser
Eileen Pollack If you’re a white male growing up in this society, you’re constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you’re receiving. – Eileen Pollack
Hari Kunzru I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love. – Hari Kunzru
Jay Blades I had my first child, split up with the missus, and moved back to London, then I ended up homeless and went into a hostel. I had a supermarket carrier bag with all of my stuff in there and it wasn’t a lot. – Jay Blades
Scott Kelly I feel more like an environmentalist since I’ve been up here. There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we’ve seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon. – Scott Kelly
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