Alastair Reynolds Quotes
It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.
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My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
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All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.
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Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
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Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
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Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too.
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It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.
