“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.” IfsStillsFatherPowerfulRecordsHavensInformationParticularBrotherTheorySourceEvolutionDadClaimsIndependentStructureErrorsLocalsObservationBankruptcyUnifiedInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!” LittlesUseCareKidsHateNaturalChristianityPracticeDangerousHavensParticularStandardsI HateNotionDon't CareGenderSexualityReactionsI Don't CareFakeRelyOur SocietyVegetablesSuperstitionsDisgustingBiasLittle KidDarlingExhibitsNormalityTrendyGender Bias Author:Susie Bright
“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.” ThinkingFeelsTryingWould BeReadingNextCareersHavensEmotionalParticularInvolvedFindingsProjectsPlanningFlavorGet InvolvedArcsInvestigatingFeels Just Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.” ThinkingWorldLooksWarPhilosophyBigsHavensParticularReaderConcernAspectStriveArguingDebateHopefullyAccomplishedPreachingAngleGovernanceBig Questions Author:George R. R. Martin
“I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.” ThinkingWinningBitsJourneyHavensChangedParticularProjectsWho You AreCurseOscarsCriteria Author:Cate Blanchett
“I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were talking about that actually, who also felt kind of silly. When we had to run she was like, 'Oh God, we're both going to get fired.' The running sequences, it's a particular kind of humiliation because it's fun.” KnowsKindBookRunningFunFeltTalkingHavensParticularSillyComicComic BookHumiliationSequenceHalfwayHelen Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all that, I didn't consciously write the book with a particular moral intent. I took what I experienced and processed it through the sausage factory of fiction. It's up to readers to interpret what's on the page - as is the case with any novel.” IfsWritingSaidBookDoneFeelingsJobsFictionMoralCasesNovelHavensParticularReaderPagesTerritoryFactoriesSausageBlandStranded Author:Dave Abrams
“I think that people find that's a fresh look at a relationship between two best friends, between two soul mates, that people haven't really seen in this particular way. So that's definitely something that people are noticing.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksTwoSoulHavensParticularMatesNoticingSoul MateTwo SoulsTwo Best Friends Author:Steve Zissis
“tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.” WritingMomentsViewsDealsFocusHavensParticularAspectHistoricalDisasterMourning Author:Teju Cole