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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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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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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Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.
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We all know that a call-up to the Springboks (South Africa national team) is a major achievement and the rewards, especially financial, are huge.
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I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.
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My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.
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Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.
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'Don’t you agree with me?''On some distant theoretical level, just possibly.'
