Charles Stross Quotes
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.
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I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
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From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.
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Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.
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Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.
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Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
