Charles Stross Quotes
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.Charles Stross
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
Gareth Gates -
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Saad Hariri -
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
Saint Patrick -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
One rose says more than the dozen.
Wendy Craig
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
Macaulay Culkin -
I always wanted pink hair.
Rachel McAdams -
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
Walter Cronkite -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
Dana Snyder -
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
Jackie Chan -
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist -
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
Karen Gillan -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
Damian Lewis -
The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
Harold Prince -
A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
Irvine Welsh -
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil -
When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
Jason Wu -
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.
Charles Stross