China Mieville Quotes
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
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'Selvandhan' is my first dubbed venture, which will release simultaneously with the original. It is a family drama. It has familiar Tamil faces, and I hope it does well.
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
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You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
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The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
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After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
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The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded.
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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
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As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
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Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.
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People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
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The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
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The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.
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At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.
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I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.
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Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.
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Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.
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While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words...
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Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
