C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
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Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées.
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
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I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don't give up.
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My first proper relationship was at 16 in college.
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I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
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All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
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''Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
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The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.
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Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
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It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.
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If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
