Quotes About Author

'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it.

There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.

There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.

I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.

With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge; you can expect that there is this common background.

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.

I have not broken any promises, but I have full freedom to say or write about what others have said to me during my tenure in the PMO.

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security.

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.