"I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science."

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Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

Nalo Hopkinson

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?”
“It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag
“I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.”
“The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.”
“I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.”
“What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.”
“This is a nasty, rotten business.”

Source : "Column: Boring? Not These Airline Execs" by Rick Seaney, abcnews.go.com. October 5, 2012.

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