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“In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.”

Lines Fiction Science Fiction Blurry Good Science

“Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.”

Political Lines Mistake Class Economic Organization Organized Capitalist Working Class

Book:Writings of Daniel DeLeon: A Collection of Essays by One of the Founders of American Revolutionary Socialism

Source: Writings of Daniel DeLeon: A Collection of Essays by One of the Founders of American Revolutionary Socialism

“I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and I think people will laugh at themselves. And it's lighthearted.”

People Thinking Lines Laughing Like You Suburbs

Author:Jane Levy

“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

Knows Years Made Stills Play School Night Lines Five Directors Performances Disaster Opening Embarrassed Juniors Junior Year Opening Night

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.”

Lines Walt

Book:Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler

Source: Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler

“I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.”

Made Lines Views Fortune

Author:Mindy McCready

“Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.”

Giving Today Difficult Can Do Lines Simple Steps Pure Perfection Complicated Dancer

Author:Natalia Makarova

“To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.”

Two Body Lines White Party Race Sitting Advantage Warrior Divided Camps Telephones Bulls One Line White Race

Author:Nelson A. Miles

“I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.”

Play Stuff Lines Roles Scene Technicians

Author:Jodie Foster

“I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.”

People Thinking Matter Lines Love Is Periods Universal Thread

Author:Rachel McAdams

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”

Knows Should Long Eye Actors Lines Boys Know How Members Long Time Shots Cameras Handle Crew Electrician

Author:Jodie Foster

“Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.”

Knows Two Stories Past Voice Lines Interesting Happenings Technique Driving Phantoms

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.”

Has Beens Lines Crowds Comic Overwhelming Comic Con Amazing Experiences

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.”

Lines Lord Huge Rings Geek

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.”

Reading Lines Greater Mines Personality Skills Pages Angry Sticks Comedian Relatable Stand Up Comedian

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.”

Lines Creativity Manifest

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.”

Firsts Lines Effort Defense Injury Involving Prevention

Author:Richard Neal

“The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.”

Enough Opportunity Given Lines Female Males Bottom Producers Bottom Line Female Writers

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.”

Dream Form Song Lines Childhood Rocks Originals Albums Drawing Bunch Punk Rock And Roll Dreams Come True Influential Childhood Dreams

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.”

Stories Political Lines Clear Judgment Reporters Crave Romney

Author:Ron Fournier

“You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.”

Stars Lines Journalism Tabloids

Author:Miranda Otto

“When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.”

Firsts Made Reality Faces Stars Lines Decision Vegetarian Shocked

Author:Renee Olstead

“Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.”

May Fighting Lines Cutting Fronts Band Organization Clean Various Aids Radical Bleeding Taliban Germs Band Aid

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.”

Thinking America Lines Accepting Poverty Allowing Engaging Paychecks Piracy

Author:Will Oldham

“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.”

People Needs Should Writing Believe Looks Play Character Would Be Able I Believe Social Challenges Lines Views Class Crosses Males Gender Point Of View Good Writers Social Class Chameleon

Author:Marisha Pessl

“My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.”

Should Lines Business Argument Bottom Profit Finance Bloody Bottom Line

Author:Anita Roddick

“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.”

Goal Realizing Lines Walks Acting Corruption Accomplish Testifying

Author:William J. Clinton

“Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.”

Way Littles Light Causes Lines Education Healthy Lessons Shining Mess

Author:Randy Travis

“Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?”

Life Persons Body Science Life Is Humanity Courses Lines Movement Materials Resistance Course Of Life

Book:Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

Source: Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”

Way Two Three Lines Logic Certainty One Way Uncertainty Planes Reasoning Two Ways Magnitude Ontology Three Ways

Author:Aristotle

“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.”

Has Beens Two Lines Boys Paper Logic Bases Distance Philosopher Invisible Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Visible Fountain Pencils Straight Lines Nothing New Ontology

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I can't start writing until I have a closing line.”

Writing I Can Lines Closing

Book:Conversations with Joseph Heller

Source: Conversations with Joseph Heller

“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Stills I Can Stories Lasts Courses Lines Honest Possibility Finished Rewriting Foolproof

Author:Amy Hempel

“My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.”

People Play Jobs Law Games Lines Toes

Author:Alan Lewis

“There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.”

Knows Inspirational Years Firsts Said Speak Lines Seven Gaps Seven Years

Author:Christopher Lee

“With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.”

Character Lines Sacrifice Ultimate Paid Soldier American Soldier Ultimate Sacrifice

Author:Dan Lipinski

“Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.”

Thinking Book Lines Half Written Good Day Bad Day Catch Me

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.”

Way Lines Poverty Economic Defined Inflation Health And Education

Author:Azim Premji

“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.”

Years Firsts Stills Helping Shows Lines Acting Four Advice Tvs Ten Tough Hollywood Coaching Tv Shows Movie Sets

Author:Michael Pena

“The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.”

Firsts Littles Real Beautiful Joy Lines My Own Five Scene Working It Crash Here And There Really Mean Arcs Vignettes

Author:Michael Pena

“I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.”

People Thinking Enough Character Left Lines Fields Complexes Unexpected Intriguing Sitcom One Line Left Field

Author:Pete Postlethwaite

“If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Lines Late Summer South Heat September Masons

Author:Scott Porter

“Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.”

Two Lines Products Fine Get Better Songwriting Mixing Fine Lines

Author:Andy Partridge

“There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.”

Littles Sides Lines Player Proud Crosses Coaches Ems Temper Both Sides Tantrums Temper Tantrums

Author:Bill Parcells

“Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.”

“Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.”

Important Lines Fairs Vanity Vanity Fair

Author:Jason Patric

“In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.”

Ifs Lines Moral Integrity Draws Get Away Ethical Survivor Fees

Author:Jeff Probst

“The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.”

Ifs Lines Security Goes On Bottom Flight Bottom Line Screening

Author:John S. Pistole

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.”

Knows Lines Fine Genius Madness Insanity Sanity Fine Lines Madness And Sanity Insanity And Sanity Madness And Insanity Dilbert Genius And Madness Definition Of Insanity Misunderstood Genius Insanity And Genius

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

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