Charles Stross Quotes
I am sick and tired of reality refusing to conform to the requirements of my meticulously-researched near-future or proximate-present fictions.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.
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I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
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If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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I am sick and tired of reality refusing to conform to the requirements of my meticulously-researched near-future or proximate-present fictions.
