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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.


Larry Hagman

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LARRY NIVEN I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN I love superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
LARRY NIVEN I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
LARRY NIVEN I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can f...
LARRY NIVEN I don't have a strong interest in history.
LARRY NIVEN Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
LARRY NIVEN We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
LARRY NIVEN I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
LARRY NIVEN I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
LARRY NIVEN I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
LARRY NIVEN As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill o...
LARRY NIVEN Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he&...
LARRY NIVEN Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
LARRY NIVEN In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of ca...
LARRY NIVEN Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
LARRY NIVEN The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
LARRY NIVEN I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, th...
LARRY MILLER Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for ...
LARRY MILLER Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting...
LARRY MILLER Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. I...
LARRY MCMURTRY Self-parody is the first portent of age.
LARRY MCMURTRY Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
LARRY MCMURTRY You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: w...
LARRY MCMURTRY If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone ...
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