Neal Asher Quotes

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

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• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

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• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

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• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

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• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

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• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

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• Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

  

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• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

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• Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

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• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

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• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

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• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

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• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

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• I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.

  

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

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• So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

  

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• Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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  • Dying

• The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.

  

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• Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

  

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• If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

  

  Neal Asher
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