Charles Stross Quotes
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
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The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.
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When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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I'm the opposite of the character in my novel: I've become more right-wing as I've got older.
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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In Blanche’s experience, the more a person believed love was a part of what they got from their employer, the more likely it was that the person was being asked to do things that only love could justify.
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I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.
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Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.
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Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.
