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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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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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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Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.
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'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about it. Because, you know, I'm not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I'm always really happy for them. I think we're always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it's true.
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He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.
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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.
