#thou

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

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Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it. ↗

— Tara Strong

#artists #beats #improving #just #make

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#easy #efficient #elegant #keys #noticing

I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#california #easier #get #girl #had

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#cardinals #communion #democrat #even #give

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#editor #every #field #i #letter

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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