Brian Aldiss Quotes

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Brian Aldiss

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• Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Character
  • Want
  • Myself

• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fan
  • Supportive

• I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • American
  • Fire

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Never
  • Page
  • Facebook

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Speak
  • Name
  • Grass

• Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Want
  • Control
  • Creative

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • Game
  • Batman

• My first date has been sort of mythologized as ‘Bieber’s Dating Disaster.’ I took her to King’s a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti. No, this was not the brightest idea. But it wasn’t a big trauma, though.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • King
  • Dating

• I always feel I have to take a stand,And there's always someone on handTo hate me for standing there.I always feel I have to open my mouth,And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time
  • Hate

• I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Art
  • Wonder
  • Creativity

• When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

  

  Matthew Lillard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

  

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Style
  • Creativity
  • Break

• Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Creativity