Charles Stross Quotes
I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'
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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
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When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
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The last time I played video games was 'Space Invaders.'
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I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal
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Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.
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I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.
