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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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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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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How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
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What did the paparazzi do to Diana? They chased her and they killed her.
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I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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'Don’t you agree with me?''On some distant theoretical level, just possibly.'
