Aliette de Bodard Quotes

You feel like a field of sugar canes after the harvest—burnt out, all cutting edges with no sweetness left inside.

Aliette de Bodard

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• I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Want
  • Movies

• We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • God
  • Women
  • Always

• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Job
  • Want
  • Day

• I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Attention
  • Body
  • Count

• Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Health
  • Decisions
  • Insurance

• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Yourself

• A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

  

  Otis Rush
  • World
  • Guy
  • You

• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Saint
  • Contradiction

• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Remember
  • Moment
  • Three

• I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Father
  • Words
  • Wise

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Average
  • Dressed

• If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Game
  • Effort

• I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Looking
  • Make
  • Go

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • People
  • Know
  • Start

• If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Overcoming

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Girl
  • Feel
  • Fat

• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Complacent

• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Remember

• You feel like a field of sugar canes after the harvest—burnt out, all cutting edges with no sweetness left inside.

  

  Aliette de Bodard
  • Feel
  • Field
  • Harvest