Alastair Reynolds Quotes

It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.

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• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
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• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
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• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

  

  Garth Ennis
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• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
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• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
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  • Rebellion

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Gay

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
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  • Eclectic

• Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.

  

  Ada Yonath
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• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
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  • Computers

• Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
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• The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Long
  • Game
  • Here

• With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

  

  James Laughlin
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• So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

  

  William Shakespeare
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  • Long
  • Death

• I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

  

  Frank Black
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.

  

  Kelly Jones
  • Up
  • Great
  • Party

• It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
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  • Soldier