Alastair Reynolds Quotes
'You can hardly blame them.''Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.'Alastair Reynolds
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
M. H. Abrams -
The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
Patricia Birch -
I still have nightmares about taking tests.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Sam Barry -
I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
O. J. Simpson -
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.
Olly Murs -
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
Kat Edmonson -
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
Adam Driver -
The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.
Tanith Lee -
It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.
Xi Jinping
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I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.
Ai Weiwei -
There are a few sections of uncut timber, luckily state-owned.
Aldo Leopold -
Gary Ross is amazing. He’s just-he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He’s trying different things and making everything look amazing.
Liam Hemsworth -
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
Scott Turow -
Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.
Bernard Lewis