Aliette de Bodard Quotes
We’ve discussed this before. Not just other people saying yes, but whether they mean it, or whether they’re just doing it because they’re afraid.
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.
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We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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We’ve discussed this before. Not just other people saying yes, but whether they mean it, or whether they’re just doing it because they’re afraid.
