Alastair Reynolds Quotes
Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I'm a huge fan of the Chainsmokers - like, huge. Like, I would love to collaborate with them.
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We know St. Louis is a great club. They have been for a long time.
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Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.
