Fictional worlds Quote by Brent Spiner

“Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world”

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If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

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Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre, the guys who run that show [Big Bang Theory], are really funny and really smart, and the cast is…

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I didn't audition or anything like that. But I went into John Loganhis office... It was his screening room in his office, actually, and…

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John Logan pretty much does the Woody Allen thing of just bringing people in and meeting them.

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Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.

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I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long.

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That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would've been really great had it continued. I know Brannon Braga, who was running the show at the time, had a lot of really interesting ideas for what was going to happen the second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons, and they had it really planned out what was going…

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I have to say, though, that somebody pointed out to me on YouTube that Conan O'Brien was being interviewed, and he was talking about how, oddly enough, he went to see that movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ] in Hawaii with his girlfriend or wife or whoever, and he didn't even realize his character was in it. But…

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I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

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I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone's and my first film.

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Rent Control was an interesting movie. It was directed by... I had done a couple of plays off Broadway, and this Italian director came,…

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Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where…

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To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

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I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

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What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary or other kinds of fiction do. The name of the game in F/SF/HF is creating fictional worlds and then telling particular stories set in those worlds. If you're doing it right, then the reader, coming to the end…

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