Philip Reeve Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.
