Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me. - Nigel Kneale

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Why is the word yes so brief? it should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.

Nigel Kneale

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

Consideration, Haunting, Like, Worth

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I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Anyway, Fiction, Saws, Science, Writing

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

Five, Four, Hollywood, Land, Names, See

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

Fun, Paradox, Together, Total, Writing

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

Believe, Flying, People, Saucers

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

Closed, Company, Film, Films, Mid, Two

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I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

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The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.

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Jonathan Sacks

Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

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Vera Pavlova

Why is the word yes so brief? it should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.

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Geoff Ryman

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

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