Alastair Reynolds Quotes

Just because something had spawned a myth did not automatically mean it had to contain anything of substance.

Alastair Reynolds

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• I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Control

• Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Bad
  • Thing
  • Defined

• To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Food
  • Production
  • Absurd

• It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Diversity

• And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • East

• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Time
  • House
  • Best

• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Students

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Really
  • Theory

• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Quality
  • Democracy
  • Achievement

• I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Bad
  • High

• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Favourite

• In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • World
  • History
  • Change

• I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Support
  • Alone
  • Myself

• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Future
  • President
  • Decisions

• What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Interesting
  • Rest
  • Yourself

• The fans make the person a star.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Star
  • Person
  • Fans

• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Strong
  • Rights

• There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • She
  • Soul
  • Single

• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Character
  • True
  • Change

• I think having a strong wife and having a solid family are things that have helped me out a lot.

  

  Chris Harris, Jr.
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Wife

• My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Father
  • Witty

• Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

  

  Anita Hill
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• Just because something had spawned a myth did not automatically mean it had to contain anything of substance.

  

  Alastair Reynolds