Brian Aldiss Quotes
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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I hate birthdays.
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You have far more courage than you think you do.
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An honest, bold, loyal, and within its limits extremely highbrow attempt to produce through common ownership a society of the Free and Equal, produced a tyrant and a totalitarian state;…
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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I might be old, but I'm still desirable.
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I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
