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It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. The... NICOLE KIDMAN One day, I was reading the New York Times and there was a front page story about Simmons and the Pla...
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DUNCAN JONES
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was... CHARLIZE THERON
I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders. CHERYL HAYASHI Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
I was never really certain why he scared the bejesus out of me. Nothing scared me growing up. I’ve... DARYNDA JONES When I was young there was a bunch of girls that was really scared and that's why I made these songs...
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I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ... DAVID S. GOYER
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it... JAMES CAMERON If there was one thing that I took away, it was paying attention to every single solitary detail, no...
AHMED BEST
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ... COREY TAYLOR
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and exp... ALAN DEAN FOSTER
Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a crim...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
Maybe it was a stupid exercise, and you couldn't grow things in winter. But there was something I li... SARAH DESSEN We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreat...
JERRY POURNELLE Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatt...
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RUPERT GRINT
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in light... MARILYN MONROE
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea... MICHIO KAKU
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. TERRY PRATCHETT I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of b...
VANESSA PARADIS I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... OCTAVIA BUTLER
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... OCTAVIA E. BUTLER From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Su...
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It seemed to me so much more sensible to make something up than go through the tedious business of i... E. L. DOCTOROW My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.
CARRIE VAUGHN
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it w... MARILYN MONROE
Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the... NEIL GAIMAN
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ... JOHN IRVING
I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was inte... JOSH DUHAMEL
We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel th...
ROBERT REED
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'... OCTAVIA BUTLER
Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be ... NICOLA ADAMS
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction... WILLIAM GIBSON There were a lot of older guys on our team and I grew up watching them. Suddenly I was there playing...
CHRISTIAN BACKMAN
I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spi... GILLIAN FLYNN
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made yo... NEIL GAIMAN
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be ... BRITT EKLAND I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because ... GILLIAN ANDERSON It was fun to see our name up there. It shows a lot of hard work, and I think we're all proud to see...
AMANDA PAPE When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why m... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne... H. G. BISSINGER 3. When making your dramatic exit, crawl along one of the web strands that extend outward from the c...
ANDREW SHAFFER
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and ... PETER ACKROYD I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
DOUGLAS WOOD I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into som...
SHANE CARRUTH It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batti...
BAILEY WHITE
I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, and I asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered:"wh... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. W... KEITH HARING
All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it in... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. DIANA WYNNE JONES When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior ...
TAKASHI MURAKAMI
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth th... CHARLES DICKENS I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
MALLORY ORTBERG
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH When you start talking about why something happened or why it was done a certain way on a project, t...
TOM HAMILTON
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I d... DANIEL GOLDSTEIN When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train...
GARDNER DOZOIS
It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly... ANNE RICE
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get ... PAWAN KALYAN It was a bit of a joke, really. They came in and asked if I wanted to do it and there was a chance t...
BEN WINDSOR
The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on... BRIAN BLESSED Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a st...
ASIF KAPADIA
The only thing you have to fear is fear itself... and spiders. ANONYMOUS
He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sis...
VICTOR ORTIZ I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. ...
JAMES BLAYLOCK
Even reading my first bad review was an awesome experience. It was cool because you make something a... RYAN COOGLER It was a really late goal. It was crazy. Garrett (Jackson) took the throw in and made a deep throw. ...
BROOKS HICKMAN I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fi...
TED CHIANG I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI
A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturall... C. JOYBELL C. Shoot, man, I loved being a damn heel. Something about that, just going out there and being the most...
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things pe...
CAROLE GEITHNER 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER There was just something shady about him. He just was looking at me... and I just, something just ki...
BONNIE UGLAND The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see...
MICHAEL PENA I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offic...
CORY MICHAEL SMITH
He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was t... IAIN M. BANKS I'd been at Valve since I got out of college. I felt like I kind of grew up there, and I wanted ...
KIM SWIFT
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robo... CYNTHIA BREAZEAL The only thing that ever scared him was finding out there was something he couldn't do, so he damn w...
JOEY W. HILL
She's got a lot of fighting spirit out there, ... I was very proud of myself for being able to win t... MARIA SHARAPOVA
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and... HERMANN HESSE As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that w...
JAMIE FOXX
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY
