William Gibson Quotes

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

William Gibson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 17, 1948

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I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

Jodie Foster

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I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.

Jerry West

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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Robert Smith

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In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward

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I have to keep working because, although I have land, I'm not cash rich and don't have the wealth of high-profile actresses - don't say I'm an 'actor.' That's a bit too modern.

Miriam Margolyes

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I've been in the business 60 years, and it's taken me this long to play a scene with a monkey. That's what happens if you stick around.

Diana Rigg

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I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Brian Wilson

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Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

Philip Schultz

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Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

Susan Wiggs

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It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.

Peter Maurer

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If you've ever tried to start up the habit of early-morning exercise, you have probably encountered how easy it is to get derailed by too much choice.

Shawn Achor

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The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Seth Shostak

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