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How to use the word sci-fi in a Sentence?

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I've done war pictures, I've done Westerns, I've done sci-fi... I mean, I wasn't in' Harry Potter,' and I wasn't in' Lord Of The Rings,' and I haven't been in' Game Of Thrones,' so there are those big ones that I haven't managed to do. But that's show biz... and, you know, I think I've still done okay.

– David Warner -LRB- right -RRB-

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He's only ever going to understand it through our ability to describe it, and through news stories. The horror, so many people have said it's like sitting watching a sci-fi film, isn't it? You couldn't write the pandemic as a film.

– Sharon Flavill

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Remember the first one? Atwood said referring to Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Two guys fly a plane in the middle of something and blow that up? The only difference is, in‘Star Wars,’ they get away, right after 9/11, they hired a bunch of Hollywood screenwriters to tell them how the story might go next. Sci-fi writers are very good at this stuff, anticipating future events. They don’t all come true, but there are interesting ‘what if’ scenarios.

– Margaret Atwood

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What bull shit-while he was a pioneer in Sci-fi I doubt that Stanley Weinbaum wrote a quote in his life. The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. Put THAT in a Google search. Dave Weinbaum

– Weinbaum

added by anonymous
6 years ago

It can be sci-fi, fantasy, gaming, you name it, anything that is celebrated here at San Diego Comic-Con can be turned into a Geek Couture outfit.

– Dan Madsen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I thought I was watching something from the Sci-fi channel.

– Jodi Luna

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When we think of robots, we tend to think of all of the big advancements coming out of Southeast Asia, and I don’t think it’s because they’re better at robots than we are -- I think they like robots more than we do and so they’re not afraid of them, i think the one thing that’s held back American robotics research for a long time is that in the West, we have this sci-fi culture of pretty scary robots, and so we have all of these horror stories of robots gone mad, and they don’t have that culture in Southeast Asia.

– Doug Stephen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You can have all of this fancy stuff and a sci-fi movie is whatever it wants to be. Everyone is trying to outgun each other. This isn't about that. This is about the force.

– Rick Carter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

– Barbara Ehrenreich

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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