Alastair Reynolds Quotes
The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.
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I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
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The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.
