Brian Aldiss Quotes
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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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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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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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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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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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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Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.
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Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. I regard the present conservation movement as the embryo of such an affirmation.
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In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
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People continue to deploy the same justification of market society—that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority—long after it failed to deliver on its original aspiration. The result is a kind of political hemiagnosia: like those patients who cannot perceive one-half of their bodies, a large class of libertarian-leaning thinkers and politicians, with considerable public following, cannot perceive half of the economy: they cannot perceive the half that takes place beyond the market, after the employment contract is accepted.
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Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.
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I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
