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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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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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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There's no way I'm going to write for other people.
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True readers … are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.
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If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.
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The Turkish people are at peace with themselves and with their history
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I guess I’ll do what everyone else does: get on with my life and forget the big questions.
