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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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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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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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.
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How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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People feel politics isn't about their lives.
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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
