Brian Aldiss Quotes
You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
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Knowledge and progress are the fruits of action.
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Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Vietnam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.
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Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.
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One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
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You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.
