#th

I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy. ↗

— David Niven

#baker #butcher #care #easy #fees

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper. ↗

— Larry Niven

#beats #expensive #paper #stack

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. ↗

— Larry Niven

#aids #along #childhood #come #disease

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #our #repair #replace #something

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. ↗

— Larry Niven

#decent #distant #enough #figure #future

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. ↗

— Larry Niven

#buy #five #got #i #kicking

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself. ↗

— Larry Niven

#brighter #i #life #lot #my life

Treat your life like something to be sculpted. ↗

— Larry Niven

#like #sculpted #something #treat #your

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. ↗

— Larry Niven

#becoming #chance #command #decent #dinosaur

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.' ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#breast cancer #cancer #chance #get #going