Alastair Reynolds Quotes
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
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I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
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I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.
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You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
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I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
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The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
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Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
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I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.
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'Don’t you agree with me?''On some distant theoretical level, just possibly.'
