Brian Aldiss Quotes

Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• My first album was completed in three months.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • First
  • Three
  • Months

• The devil made me do it.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Me
  • Made
  • Devil

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Color
  • Matter
  • Taste

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Think
  • Education
  • Finish

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Book

• I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Jokes

• I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Fall
  • Doing

• I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Age
  • Doing

• The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Live
  • Country
  • American

• The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, 'Petroleum,' like the word 'Fried,' connoted a company too oily for American tastes.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • American

• Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Why
  • Help
  • Bridge

• We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

• He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Future
  • Understanding
  • Waiting

• Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?

  

  Brian Aldiss
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