Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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There's no way my body can be fixed, but what we can hope to do is keep all the deteriorative processes as minimal as possible.
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What they didn't realize is that the combination of a warm heart and a brilliant mind has made this man a winner.
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'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.
