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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Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
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You have to be selfish to be an actor.
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A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?
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Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
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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.
