China Mieville Quotes
In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
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A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.
