Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Bonnie Hammer - Page 2

We couldn't own Sci Fi; it's a genre. But we can own Syfy.

'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.

A black actor is perfect for 'Kojak.'

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

Harvey Milk gave hope to generations of gay and lesbian Americans by encouraging them to live their lives openly and to speak out against the discrimination and prejudice they faced.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

The one thing that makes me nuts is if there's a problem or something that I don't know about.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.

I will never not take anyone's phone call.

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.

I'm a chick. I like shopping.

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.

With 'Battlestar Galactica,' we had such resistance from the fan base to changing it. The upshot was, we ultimately won them over.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

From my point of view, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' isn't just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one of my favorite books ever.

Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

'Stargate SG-1' is one of Sci Fi's sure-fire hits. It's got one of the best ensemble casts on television and one of the best production teams as well.

When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

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