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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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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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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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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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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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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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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There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him, and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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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.
