Brian Aldiss Quotes
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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I'm accountable to my God, and I haven't done anything I'm embarrassed of.
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A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.
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When I was in Japan with my girlfriend Jessica, she would have had acupuncture every day if she could. I can just about stomach going to a chiropractor and I visited a talented one when I was there, but when he tried a needle on me, it was horrible. My muscles tightened and it didn't work at all.
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She had tried to love him.
