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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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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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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Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisin' - hoping that I didn't make somebody feel bad for not having as much as we're fortunate to have.
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Pain is a message asking for our help.
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Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.
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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.
