William Gibson Quotes
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions.
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I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
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After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.
