China Mieville Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
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I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.
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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
