“Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.” WorldWayBitsFictionScience FictionPhilosopherPopsDidactic Author:Brit Marling
“I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'” PeopleArtSongBitsSidesCitiesPiecesPerformancesRadioPopsQueensCall MeEccentricPop MusicGagaPerformance ArtQueen Song Author:Lady Gaga
“I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.” ThinkingWarSufferingBitsViewsCompanyFireToo MuchMiddleBattleDefinitionsPopsSmellEastJournalismMiddle EastReportersImmuneRomanticismVictorianCannons Author:Robert Fisk
“The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable.” IfsShouldStillsBitsGoalSkyDisciplineFindingsPopsBackgroundsEveningHopefullySomething NewIntriguingVenusUnimaginableBlandEvening Sky Author:Karl Barry Sharpless
“I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.” WorldSeemsBitsTermRocksTasteJazzHeavyPopsOddClassicCyclesMetalsPhasesEclecticHeavy MetalBritsWorld MusicClassic RockTaste In MusicEclectic Style Author:Rachel Miner
“I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.” ThinkingFeelsTryingLittlesSometimesLife IsBitsRegretLittle BitDepthExcitedPopsWheelsI Regret Author:Liz Phair
“When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.” FirstsKidsAgeYoungBitsActingWatchesSeeingTasteCamerasPopsBugsYoung AgeHarlem Author:Tracy Morgan