China Mieville Quotes
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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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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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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 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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I've always been a big guy, whether it's been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of... I guess the term would be 'popular.' I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you'd think a fat kid might have to deal with.
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The Web has incredible potential for an artist who keeps in touch with millions of people.
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Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.
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One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
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I've had dogs all my life. I'm a huge animal lover, especially dogs, so that's one of the hardest things about being away all the time. I really miss them, but my mum does a really good job looking after then when I'm gone.
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Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
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Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
