Alastair Reynolds Quotes
The Jugglers store patterns, but they seldom show any sign of comprehending actual content. We’re dealing with a mindless biological archiving system, a museum without a curator.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
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The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
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Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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As for my personal style, I like comfort a lot, like jeans and T-shirts. Having been a trainer for so long, I spend a lot of my days in tank tops, shorts, and T-shirts. Still, I do like the occasions where I get to wear suits and make that a thing.
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The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu
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You can't write a book about Hillary Clinton and not anticipate some blowback, so I always knew it was going to be something.
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There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.
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My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
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The Jugglers store patterns, but they seldom show any sign of comprehending actual content. We’re dealing with a mindless biological archiving system, a museum without a curator.
