Alastair Reynolds Quotes

Naqi suspected that the ability to turn drunkenness on and off like a switch must be one of the most hallowed of diplomatic skills.

Alastair Reynolds

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• I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.

  

  Larry Buchanan
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• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

  

  Gale Norton
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• I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

  

  Karen Gillan
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• One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

  

  Kate Bush
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• What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Mind
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• The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Government

• According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
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  • Mouth

• There was a young man with a salary, Who had to do drawings for Malory; When they asked him for more, He replied, 'Why? Sure You've enough as it is for a gallery.'

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
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• Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
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• Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

  

  Bruce Lee
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• Il y a plus d'une sagesse, et toutes sont nécessaires au monde; il n'est pas mauvais qu'elles alternent.

  

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• I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

  

  Tyson Chandler
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• I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.

  

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• If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut.

  

  Donald Trump
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• I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

  

  Eleanor Catton
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• I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

  

  Sid Vicious Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Love
  • Mirror
  • Bottle

• Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

  

  Abraham Zaleznik
  • Decision
  • Door
  • Issues

• When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

  

  David Steinberg
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• I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

  

  Frances Mayes
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• Naqi suspected that the ability to turn drunkenness on and off like a switch must be one of the most hallowed of diplomatic skills.

  

  Alastair Reynolds