L. Neil Smith Quotes
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.

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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I don't run behind authority.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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We had the first-game jitters. We had a lot of guys who were playing their first-ever indoor game. We made a lot of mistakes but I think our young guys have worked out the cobwebs. I'm hoping that it's going to be a lot different game than two weeks ago. No, I'm banking on it being a lot different game.
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
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There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.
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My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.