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Charles Stross Quotes

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Talent Ideas You Born Skill Some

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

People Famous Go Know First Act

When I was in high school, I had a notebook that I filled up with rules about lying. It must have been a hundred pages long - one hundred pages of rules about lying!

School High School Long Rules Lying

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Maynard Jackson

Live Best Politics Not Perfect Means

I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.

Myself World Look Out Up Ohio

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

Me Think Thinking What If I Think

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

Matthew Broderick

Walk Know Now Why Toilet Standing

I think my biggest achievement was being part of a team of outstanding, entrepreneurial military leaders and civilians who helped change the way in which America fights by transforming a global special operations task force - Task Force 714 - that I commanded.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Change Achievement Team Think Way

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

Thrive Being Bands Disparate Several

There is a real problem in terms of the refugee flow, the ability of ISIS to infiltrate those refugee flows, our inability to track them.

Problem Flow Real Ability Refugee

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?

Eyes Amazing Me Thought Interesting

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

Experience Go Experiences Cancer

My biggest secret is that I don't over-wash my hair. I wash it twice a week at the most, unless I'm on set every day.

Jonathan Van Ness

Day Hair Week Every Day Secret Wash

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