China Mieville Quotes
I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
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Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.
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I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
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I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.
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I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'
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I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.
