Brian Aldiss Quotes
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.
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I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
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Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
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The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it
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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.
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If adolescence did not exist it would be unnecessary to invent it!
