Philip Reeve Quotes
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
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There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
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I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
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Mrs. Brisbane-Brown was a relic, but only the unthinking would have called her a snob. For snobbishness implies some sense of insecurity, and she was perfectly secure.
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I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
