Nigel Kneale Quotes

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Success
  • Democracy

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Knowledge
  • Innocence

• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Thing
  • Analysis
  • Itself

• If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Space
  • Office

• Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Sex
  • Same

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Needs
  • Boss

• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Childhood
  • Modern
  • Rate

• We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Rock
  • Start
  • Bands

• Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Live
  • Worry
  • Bible

• Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Luck
  • Once
  • Consistently

• The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

  

  Alexander Whyte
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Talent

• People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Imagination
  • Attitude

• I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

  

  Adam Silvera
  • Grief
  • Fiction
  • Written

• I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.

  

  Emily Susan Rapp
  • Story
  • Write
  • Fiction

• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Winning
  • Military

• I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

  

  Nigel Kneale
  • Fiction
  • Saws