Ben Richards on mean
Ben Richards8 quotes“Just because there’s a trillion places to put an idea doesn’t mean you don’t need an idea in the first place”
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Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.
Ben RichardsBen Richards I’m not into politics. I’m into survival.
Ben RichardsBen Richards I’m not from a particularly sci-fi background. I’m not anti sci-fi at all, but I’ve never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.
Ben RichardsBen Richards The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.
Ben RichardsBen Richards The best content is the means, not the end.
Ben RichardsBen Richards I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I’d always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.
Ben RichardsBen Richards I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I’m a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I’m slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.
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Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett Giving up your dreams is easy, but ask yourself is it really easy to live without dreams?
Sania AbbasSania Abbas It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’ – but I actually mean sad.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki You can’t keep living backwards – Reminiscing on what was, And terrified to pursue What could be.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
Ron WhiteRon White The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.
Ron WhiteRon White How clever am I? I’m really quite clever. I mean, look, I’ve got a first-class degree from Oxford.
Giles CorenGiles Coren Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
Giles CorenGiles Coren If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.
Werner HeisenbergWerner Heisenberg