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 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 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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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Money: power at its most liquid.
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Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
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For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.
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I have always known that I wanted to be a singer and I knew that meant sacrificing some things for my dream. When I am home I hang out with my friends and go to dances, so I try and partake in some of the activities that I miss out on.
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Of course I've felt racism.
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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.'
