Alastair Reynolds Quotes
She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I have never had to travel more than thirty seconds from home to office, and it's because of that that I've been able to maintain, really a family life that has nurtured and sustained me during this time [of presidency].
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'
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We ought not to judge superior men without reference to the spirit of their age. This is an influence from which they cannot escape, and so far as it extenuates their errors it ought to be pleaded in their favour.
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As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
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She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness.
