Alastair Reynolds Quotes
'It must be a real one-horse town.'Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. 'It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.'
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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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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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers.
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I love this idea of expanding the game universe. It has been limited. I guess probably because the genre was so successful, and the people who were creating those games made so much money at it they just had no desire to sort of open it up.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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'It must be a real one-horse town.'Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. 'It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.'
