Brian Aldiss Quotes
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	You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.   
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	The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.   
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	If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.   
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	A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.   
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	Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.   
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	I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.   
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	A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.   
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	I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.   
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	My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.   
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	I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.   
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	There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.   
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	I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?   
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	The future is keeping you out of the present time.   
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	Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.   
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	I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'   
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	My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.   
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	Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.   
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	White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.   
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	Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR.   
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	I am more creative when I don't have sex.   
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	I have a great love of animals and laughter.   
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	Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.   
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	While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies and novels, on the other hand, are easy to understand. So what I like to do is use pop cultural ephemera of all kinds as tools to help me try to understand philosophy.   
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	One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					