John Sladek Quotes
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for president, because if it's something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I'm all for that.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.
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Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
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There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
