China Mieville Quotes

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

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• 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

• People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Think
  • Before

• With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • You
  • Camera

• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Losing

• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • Hilarious
  • Jacket

• The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Guy
  • Influence
  • Songs

• Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Important
  • Power
  • Body

• Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Look
  • Easy
  • Hard

• Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Want
  • Ideal
  • Virginity

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • American
  • Not Good Enough

• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Existence

• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Often

• My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • May
  • Forget

• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Swimming

• On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Great
  • Team

• Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Years
  • Young
  • Maybe

• I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Time

• I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.

  

  Brenda Brathwaite
  • Experience
  • Games
  • Don't Remember

• 'Instagram' is great if you want to share photos, but you're not that technical. Or, if you're not interested in sharing publicly, 'Instagram' becomes a place where you can not only consume photos and videos from musicians, or whoever, but send them directly to your friends.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Great
  • Friends

• 'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

  

  China Mieville