Ian Watson Quotes
When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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We shred every day.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
