China Mieville Quotes
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I love anything to do with history.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.
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Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
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Putin said I was a genius. I do say this: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we actually could get along with Russia and China and some other countries that we don’t get along with, and then we go out and knock the hell out of ISIS? Wouldn’t it be nice if we cleaned that mess up? Wouldn’t it be smart?
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I'd say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they get close.
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
