Alastair Reynolds Quotes
She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'
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We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
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I've got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, 'This guy's not very good.'
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We couldn't overcome a tough shooting game for Kobe. They threw an extra man at him, and we didn't make good adjustments. Offensively, I don't think we grasped the concepts of what we are trying to do here.
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She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.
