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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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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I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
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I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe in marriage and still have fantasies about it.
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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
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Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.
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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.'
