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psychology mind abnormal
Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all? Carrie Fisher
psychology independence metaphor
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition. Carl Sagan
psychology fiction use
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology . Bill Vaughan
psychology disease cures
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure. Bertrand Russell
psychology special violence
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence. Ben Elton
psychology special cases
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs. Celia Green
psychology important chess
Psychology is the most important factor in chess. Alexander Alekhine
psychology horror film
Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist. Dario Argento
psychology ideology humans
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. Albert Camus
fiction good imagine writer
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that. Andrew Clements
fiction opened quite science stanley work
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. Ridley Scott
fiction report task tool tradition writers
Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language. Alice McDermott
fiction mainstream reader
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other. Bharati Mukherjee
fiction great information lovely open social talk whether
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. Karin Slaughter
fiction future montreal quebec science shot tons visual
'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen. Martin Villeneuve
fiction lives nature quite since stuff wonder writers
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! Julia Glass
fictional finally fits history politics return totally
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. David Guterson
fiction overall
I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery. Shaun Cassidy
use retiring
I never use that word, retire. B. B. King
useless adaptability term
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. Bill Bryson
use want might
If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family. Ashton Kutcher
use instruments creator
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. Antoine Lavoisier
use professional-competence philosopher
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
useful
That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated. Ken Leavitt
users
We look at our users' interests, without our users we don't have business. Jerry Yang
use world opinion
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. Blaise Pascal
use significant ill
God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life. Charles R. Swindoll