Alastair Reynolds Quotes

'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.

Alastair Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 13, 1966

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I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and tell stories here in the South, they use a lot of figurative language. The stories that I heard when I was growing up, and the stories that I read, taught me to use the kind of language that I do. It's hard for me to work against that when I am writing.

Jesmyn Ward

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I sleep around 8 hours, but I tend to wake up several times a night with constant dreams, thoughts, and ideas related to Rent the Runway.

Jennifer Hyman

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We can invent only with memory.

Alphonse Karr

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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The U.K. was extremely important to my father and continues to be a place of tremendous goodwill for my family and I.

Rohan Marley

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Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

Rupert Everett

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I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.

Mary Pilon

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My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

Lorde

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I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it was my first real concert that I'd been to. I saw that crowd and how they reacted and how great of a performer she was and the band. Just the energy of the whole thing collectively really captured me.

Jay DeMarcus

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It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

Johnny Depp

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The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

Donald Rumsfeld

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