Alastair Reynolds Quotes
'Tanner, are you insane?''Very probably several kinds of insane,' I said. 'But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.'
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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Everybody grows but me.
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It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
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I certainly don't understand Fox's decision-making process.
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I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
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'Tanner, are you insane?''Very probably several kinds of insane,' I said. 'But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.'
