Alastair Reynolds Quotes
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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I may be a real bad boy, but baby, I'm a real good man.
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I sleep the best in my own bed, which is too bad because I'm not sleeping in my bed enough.
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.
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It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
