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 definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.
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People are so codified - it's sad.
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Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.
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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
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I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).
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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.'
