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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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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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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The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
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One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.
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My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
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Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
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I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.
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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.
