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Charles Stross Quotes

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: October 18, 1964

Topics

Science Art Focus Ideas Literature

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Good Poor More Who Again He

What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.

Jerry Della Femina

Love Character Real Contradictions

I'm part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We've seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still here, they seem consumed and blinded by fame. It may not have taken them out physically, but they have been taken out.

Great People Generation Come And Go

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

Good Live Experience Walk Amazing

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

Wisdom Relationship Me Building Said

There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep.

Music People Deep Think Wish Thrive

What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

Love Lie Night Someone You Feelings

I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

Great Me World Friends Doing Enough

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Inspirational School People College

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

Douglas Brinkley

Golden Never Golden Rule Rule Had

I am a firm believer in slavery.

I Am Slavery Firm Believer Am

I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.

Smart Know Pretty Handle How Around

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