"Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite."

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Source : "Caprica Producer Jane Espenson Redefines Racism in the BSG Universe". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

Jane Espenson

#Meaningful Quotes #Real Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.”
“Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudesâ€”into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.170, New York Review of Books
“It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.”
“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”

Source : Song: Storm
“In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.”
“I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.”
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
“I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.”

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