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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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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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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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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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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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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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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Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
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To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.
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There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
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I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.
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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.'
