Quotes by Kage Baker - Page 1

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
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Coats
Cutting
Fashion
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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Nine
Craft
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Detest
Devices
Flying
Keyboards
Never Own My Own
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The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Technology
Film
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Edison
Frankenstein
Revived
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Corporations
Film
Houdini
Waiting
Corporation
Harry
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One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
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School
Taught Us
Unnecessary
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For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.
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Film
News
Water
Greatest
Blows
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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Color
Culture
Excitement
Fascinated
Powerful
Love Romantic Always
Nearly
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If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
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Comedian
Tolerance
Watches
Comedians
Wizard
Oz
Wizard Of Oz
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People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
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Beloved
Ignorant
People
Reality
Show Business
History Business People
Classics
Disney
Manner
Mention
Realities
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What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.
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Creator
Point Of View
Envisioned
Favor
Oz
Quite A Lot
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Drills
Coat
Cover
Drop
Lab
Wonders
Suffer
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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Demon
Flaws
Ought
Partial
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England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.
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Kings
England
Wife
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In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.
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Film
Heard
Persecution
Prague
Protect
Rabbi
German
Director
Created
Legend
Inhabitants
Noted
Paul
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I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.
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Holes
Missing
Plot
Print
Apparently
Doubts
Footage
Produced
Restored
Superior
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So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.
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Assured
Cinematic
Immortality
Indelible
Mgm
Shadow
Cast
Vast
Wizard
Oz
Wizard Of Oz
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Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.
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Fixed
Publishing
Sooner Or Later
Take A Chance
Good Chance Your
Good Chance Game
Sooner
Editor
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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Adaptation
Bears
Resemblance
Sea
Studios
Version
Earlier
Unlike
Jules
Released
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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
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Bleeding
Cinema
Features
Indelible
Moon
Wounded
Directed
Images
Voyage
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Hollywood
Idyllic
Perfect
Successful
Build
Writer
Brief
Generation
Later
Looked
Town
Settle
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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Far Away
Galaxy
Gold
Indestructible
Long Time Ago
Lovely
Manners
Models
Obedient
Servant
Tired
Time Fly Long
Auction
Perfectly
Shiny
Virtually
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According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.
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Alive
Animated
Class
Robots
Wisest
Jewish
Very
According
Had
Ancestors
Same
He
Dead
Legend
Frankenstein
Monster
Neither
Nor
Strictly
Rather
Servants
Speaking
Strictly Speaking
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1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.
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Animal
Archives
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Classic
Mere
Obscure
Dinosaur
Existing
Extinct
Footage
Fragmentary
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Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.
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Offspring
Plot
Qualified
Restoring
Science Fiction
Theme
Concept
Frankenstein
Les
Novelist
Organ
Severed
Thriller
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I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.
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Technology
Thinking
Writing
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The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky. Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.
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Dream
Light
Sky
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Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.
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Technology
Hate
Mistake
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Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn't see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn't condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.
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Pride
Race
Stupid
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