Alastair Reynolds Quotes
'But you can be sure there are pockets of wealth and influence, and I’m willing to wager that a few people are wealthier and more influential than they were before.''That’s always the way with disasters,' I said.'What?''They’re never bad news for everyone. Something nasty always rises to the top.'
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where black women were furthest from the standard of beauty, in an American culture where trans women of color were invisible.
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People have always asked me why my favorite event was floor, and my answer was always, 'Because I love to dance!'
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Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.
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People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.
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Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.
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'But you can be sure there are pockets of wealth and influence, and I’m willing to wager that a few people are wealthier and more influential than they were before.''That’s always the way with disasters,' I said.'What?''They’re never bad news for everyone. Something nasty always rises to the top.'
