Aliette de Bodard Quotes

When I read 'Dream of Red Mansions,' I was really struck by the fact that it was built differently from a lot of genre works. Specifically, a lot of the events that should have taken centre-stage - wars, social upheavals - were seen entirely through the eyes of the women of a Chinese household.

Aliette de Bodard

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There's something to be said about content living on a channel forever.

John Cabrera

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By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Sidney Altman

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I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

Trent Reznor

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I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I'm not the best company and am best left alone. But I'm not nearly as bad as people like to make out.

Tony McCoy

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Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Ronald Reagan

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When I first joined the Secret Service in 1983, I was right out of college, having spent the last two or three years of my college experience working as a police officer for the city of Orlando, Florida.

Julia Pierson

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I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years.

Diane Lane

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Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

Dick Van Dyke

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It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop.

Dennis Farina

MorningGreatTimeUpGreat Time

Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.

Dawn Richard

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I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

Christina Aguilera

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I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.

Ari Graynor

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