Cory Doctorow Quotes

First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.

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• Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Meat

• I still love my little home on YouTube, really.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Love
  • Home
  • YouTube

• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Remember
  • History
  • Opportunity

• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Present

• Fear is the passion of slaves.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Slaves

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Problems

• I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Morning

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Remember
  • High
  • Woman

• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Live
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Single
  • Car
  • Design

• I was 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• True love opens the gates of time.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Love
  • True

• I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, because it was like, 'I can't tell if it's supposed to be funny because he talks funny.' And now I feel like there are certain characters that I could play that could involve doing a thicker accent, as long as it's specific to that character.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Ambition
  • Reader
  • Muse

• First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Time
  • Fall
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