Brian Aldiss Quotes
The midwife bustled out to the four in the antechamber and announced that the Almighty (who had recently become a Protestant) had seen fit to bless milady with a son.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.
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Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
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My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.
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The midwife bustled out to the four in the antechamber and announced that the Almighty (who had recently become a Protestant) had seen fit to bless milady with a son.
