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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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'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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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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I feel that being comfortable - being yourself - when you walk into an audition room is a really important thing. I think being able to own every aspect of your life is only going to make you be more comfortable in front of a table of people you don't know.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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She just took off running to the old Perkins place. He couldn't help turning to watch. She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn. So smooth. The word 'beautiful' came to his mind, but he shook it away and hurried up to his house.
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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.'
