Charles Stross Quotes
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I’d never have time to do anything else.
Quotes to Explore
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.
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You can't rush inspiration.
Colson Whitehead -
I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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Mental illness is not funny.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I’d never have time to do anything else.
