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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• She was painfully aware that doing one’s best was never assurance that it wasn’t the wrong choice anyway.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Best
  • Choice

• I have provided all of my work related emails.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work

• Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life

• For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

  

  Jim Costa
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Partner

• If, like me, you've never watched 'Game of Thrones', the podcast 'Binge Mode: 'Game of Thrones'' ought to be unlistenable. It isn't, thanks to the energy of the two expert presenters Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion, who have the wit to laugh at their own deep-dive devotion and are helped out by some smart editing.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Game
  • Energy
  • Deep

• I always want to improve.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Always
  • Improve

• I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Song
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.

  

  Paul Buchheit
  • Care
  • Influence
  • Companies

• '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