Alastair Reynolds Quotes
I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.
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One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.
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When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with 'Lean Back.'
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I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.
