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Science fiction is filled with...

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Science fiction, to me, has no...

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Science is a tool, and we inve...

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Some bioengineering is good, e...

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Some of our earliest writing, ...

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Speculative fiction encompasse...

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

The myth that everyone once re...

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

There would be no Sherlock Hol...

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Victorian literature was my su...

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

When I was 16, I started publi...

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

When things are really dismal,...

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Writers and books are cheap da...

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

You hear doom and gloom about ...

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

You're never going to kill sto...

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Reading and writing, like ever...

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

I'm a strict, strict agnostic....

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

If you're waiting for the perf...

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Our generation in the west was...

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

A reader can never tell if it'...

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

All fiction is about people, u...

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....