Alastair Reynolds Quotes
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.
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Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
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Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.
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If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.
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In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.
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It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.
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Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.
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Is this a personal grudge or are you just psychotic?
