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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How lucky am I?
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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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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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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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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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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.
