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 was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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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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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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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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If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead -
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
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I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
