"Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one)."

-- Mary J. Miller

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“I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.”
“Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.”
“My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.”

Source : "‘Girls’ Star Allison Williams On Her Masturbation Scene, Lena Dunham And More". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2012.
“Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.”
“You can only understand the present age when it is past.”
“I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.”

Source : "Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds". Interview with Maxim Lott, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2013.
“If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.”
“I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.”

Source : "NCIS' Tattooed Abby Defies Stereotypes". Interview with Mark Morrison, www.tvguide.com. December 4, 2007.

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