Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.
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The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
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People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
