Corinne Maier Quotes
Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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I'm an idiot.
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Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
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If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.
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In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
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Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
