Brian Aldiss Quotes
In Mrs. Swinton's garden, it was always summer. The lovely almond trees stood about it in perpetual leaf. Monica Swinton plucked a saffron-colored rose and showed it to David.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.
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I'm a dirty kid: I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster. I was obsessed with Dogtown - I still am obsessed with Dogtown, the Z-Boys. I love Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams and Andrew Reynolds, all these guys. I used to think I was Chad Muska.
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I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.
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Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.
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The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
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I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
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In Mrs. Swinton's garden, it was always summer. The lovely almond trees stood about it in perpetual leaf. Monica Swinton plucked a saffron-colored rose and showed it to David.
