Richard K. Morgan Quotes
When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.
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'How can you read such a beautiful book and turn your back on it?''Never said it wasn’t a beautiful book. I just don’t believe there’s some man up there in the black who gets off on watching us pound our head on the pavement six times a day.
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It gave him the confidence he needed to believe that maybe, just maybe, they had a right to be together. He’d never felt the way he was feeling at.
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As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
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The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.
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When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.
