Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.
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A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
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I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
