I used to watch the old 'Flash Gordon' series on TV, and it was thrilling to rocket to the planet Mongo every week. But after a while, I figured out that although Flash got the girl and all the accolades, it was really Dr. Zarkov who made the series work. Without Dr. Zarkov, there could be no Flash Gordon.
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Related My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encount... JACK MCDEVITT I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon ... BRUCE DAVISON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I grew up on Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon. There wasn't a space program or NASA when I was a kid, FRED HAISE I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be t... SAM J. JONES People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it... BRIAN BLESSED Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about a... MARC GUGGENHEIM When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I ... LINA WERTMULLER I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH 'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and... PHIL HARTMAN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do lov... GARTH NIX There are over one million Flash developers around the world and this highly innovative and creative... GARY KOVACS Besides Spiderman and Batman, 'The Flash' has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a... ANDREW KREISBERG It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... It was better than consensus, but the thing that was driving it was flash. JACK GERAGHTY I wasn't really worried about the first knockdown, ... That was a flash knockdown. But I saw him on ... JEFF FENECH I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right... SCOTT MCKENZIE Wonderful -- that's the best defensive game we've ever played as a team. They flash and flash and fl... ASHLEY ALTMAN Flash is about freedom; Flash is about expression. Flash is about just the joy of exuberant running ... MARK WAID The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was ac... SARAH TODD HAMMER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I got a little teary because there was a flash of losing another one. CONNIE JOHNSON 'Flashpoint' is a showcase to demonstrate why the Flash is a major character, just like how ... GEOFF JOHNS People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that... BILL SIENKIEWICZ So I sat at the table and it was like a lightning flash hit me. GEMMA LA MANA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT When it was announced that I was going to be on 'Castle,' there were immediate messages on a... GINA TORRES I'm still trying to figure out how I got the idea, if I did, to revive the original Flash after five... JULIUS SCHWARTZ I wouldn’t stop until I figured the damn thing out–it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. B... RICHARD FEYNMAN I feel that we learned from the previous event 'Proud to be'. We have been more organized this time ... GORDON FLASH It's telepathy, over. FLASH GORDON I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was ... NEIL GAIMAN I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's payi... CHRIS MATTHEWS I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,... JOSHUA ROMAN It was a flash of eureka. STUART L. SCHREIBER Will there be flash memory? Absolutely. Is flash memory going to grow? Absolutely. But we think they... KAUSHIK ROY I nicknamed him 'Flash,' because he is so fast out there on the floor and he does it with ease. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL A flash flood watch is in effect from 4 p.m. Monday into Tuesday afternoon with the potential of fla... BRAD DOYLE Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I was lost. I had never broken in a first baseman?s mitt and there was no one on the team who could ... JUSTIN MILLER It wasn't a sudden blinding flash of recognition. It was something I really had to think about and t... JANICE STOCKIGT I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do,... KATE JACKSON It was just a big flash. It pretty much blew me to the other side of the truck. It all happened so f... BILL VAUGHN I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ... R. L. STINE I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck... M. WARD If there was a spade on the pitch I would have dug a hole and buried myself. I was not trying to be ... TIM WIESE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. Bu... KATIE MCGARRY I'm not a broken down car, that you can just push on down the street.. I'm a girl that's in love wit... AUDRA BUKAUSKAS While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until ... DAN HILL The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it. HEDI SLIMANE 'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke ... ALEX PAREENE The Indy 500 was on (TV) every year and my dad used to watch it. I used to watch the start, maybe, t... DANICA PATRICK People are either artists who want to make music and make headlines or they are really celebrities w... THOMAS DEFRANTZ I've got every Dr Seuss book there is. Everything was red, like the sky was on fire. That was a memo... MARKUS ZUSAK I've recently rediscovered Anthony Trollope. I used to read him back in college, and a friend tu... KEVIN KWAN If China were to explode, I'd want to be there in a flash. If there's a big story, I want to... BOB SIMON How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that... BROCK CLARKE There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Cana... DEAN DEVLIN I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up ... RYAN LEE I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like,... GLENN DANZIG There was a loud noise - I thought it was a plow coming through - then a flash of light, and then th... HOWARD CURTIS life is a dark cave, Jesus is the flash light, the bible is the batteries and your will to turn the ... AKIBA I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When... RACHEL MCADAMS I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. Pe... RUPERT GRINT i had my first hot flash yesterday and was told by a good friend that Merlot and coffee help....well... ANJIE HENLEY People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X... SPIKE LEE I freaked. I couldn't tell what it was until I saw the flash at the end of the barrel. LINDA MILLIKAN We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier. STEPHEN MERCHANT The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. ~The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordo... STEPHEN KING IT’S A FUNNY THING TO be the product of a fairy-tale romance. It’s another thing to think you mi... KIERA CASS About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was... PETER SCOLARI I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor. MANNY COTO The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what... LIBBA BRAY The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They s... LITTLE RICHARD I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every... KARL MALDEN After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration... PALOMA PICASSO The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me a... JENNIFER ELLISON The launch of the Forum Nokia PRO: Flash Zone continues and expands the relationship between Nokia a... LEE EPTING Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a f... L'WREN SCOTT There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale,... PETER V. BRETT Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo... J.M. COETZEE I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double... ROBERT ENGLUND 'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general whe... VICTORIA AVEYARD One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone... MICHAEL GRANT The risk the recovery turns out to be a flash in the pan is enormous. ANTON BOERNER What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the futu... URSULA K. LEGUIN The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
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