Charles Stross Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.
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Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
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There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.
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'You have an evil mind!''And this is a bad thing how, exactly?'
