China Mieville Quotes

I'm a very friendly socialist.

China Mieville

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• Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Done
  • Thank God

• I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Ideal

• In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Cool
  • Lie
  • Roads

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Think
  • Adrenaline

• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • You
  • Like
  • Abuse

• Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Year
  • Immigration

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Movie

• While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Family
  • Abandoned
  • Dining

• I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Love
  • Road
  • Story

• When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Violence
  • Religion
  • Dreams

• My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Amazing

• Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Feel
  • Year
  • Just Because

• The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Fear
  • Evil

• I have no one style.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style

• I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Think
  • Alone

• The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. Merritt.

  

  Gary Gygax

• Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.

  

  Jim Allchin
  • Popular

• To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

  

  Adrian Smith Iron Maiden
  • Cool
  • Tennis

• Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Light

• We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Home
  • Food
  • Generation

• There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• I'm a very friendly socialist.

  

  China Mieville