Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.
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That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
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We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who calls attention to his style, is like the farmer who devotes his energies to polishing farm implements and never uses them.
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I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.
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Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
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I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.
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Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.
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I've always wanted to be the center of attention.
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Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
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But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.
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If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus.
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If I did want to get a girl's attention, it would just be in some way where I would just start talking to her. It would have to feel organic. It's too weird otherwise.
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You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.
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On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.
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It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.
