Charles Stross Quotes
'Bad day at the office?''It’s always a bad day at the office, insofar as the office exists in the first place.'
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I think chocolate in moderation is not bad for you, but I eat way too much. I tell myself I'm going to eat two squares, and then I end up eating half a big bar.
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No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.
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'Bad day at the office?''It’s always a bad day at the office, insofar as the office exists in the first place.'
