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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Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
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Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
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I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
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In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
Colson Whitehead -
Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
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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.
