Charles Stross Quotes
As every secret policeman knows, there is no such thing as a coincidence; the state has too many enemies.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I've had a great ride. I've got no complaints.
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There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.
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I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.
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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
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As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.
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It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
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The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today we know we've got a porous border and people are coming in, and we don't know who they are. So secure the border then we can have a conversation about it.
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Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.
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From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
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As every secret policeman knows, there is no such thing as a coincidence; the state has too many enemies.
