Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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I'm a very independent woman.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.
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What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
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Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
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Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
