China Mieville Quotes
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
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I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
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As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
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It is the good who do not sleep.
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I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
