Alastair Reynolds Quotes
I guess I’ll do what everyone else does: get on with my life and forget the big questions.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Life is about timing.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
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I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.
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I guess I’ll do what everyone else does: get on with my life and forget the big questions.
