Brian Aldiss Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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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.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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The devil made me do it.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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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.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
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I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.
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Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while.
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Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?
