Charles Stross Quotes
'Friendly fascism,' says Sadeq. 'It matters not, whosoever is in charge. I could tell you tales from my parents, of growing up with a revolution. To never harbor self-doubt is poison for the soul, and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us.'
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.
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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
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'Friendly fascism,' says Sadeq. 'It matters not, whosoever is in charge. I could tell you tales from my parents, of growing up with a revolution. To never harbor self-doubt is poison for the soul, and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us.'
