Alastair Reynolds Quotes

I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.

Alastair Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HumanAlwaysGoingBeenIdea

As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.

John Rowland

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The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

Robert Barany

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As a director, I've wanted to have adventure in my life, creative adventure. I think it's partly because I grew up, basically from age six to 26, mostly on television series where the producers find something that works and then do it over and over and over again.

Ron Howard

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Boxing has been my life, and it is my life. I've enjoyed every moment of it.

Roy Jones Jr.

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What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible experiences with the bad forces, but Sweden didn't. I think we use the thrillers in a different way. We never write a thriller like 'Who is the murderer?' The big question in most of our thrillers is... 'Why?'

Michael Nyqvist

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'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.

Jason Aaron

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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Jonathan Franzen

LifeMusicMy LifeKindBackground

As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

Claire Messud

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I never had a chance to learn how to drive.

Brittany Murphy

DriveChanceLearnNeverHowHad

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

Anthony Weiner

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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

Audre Lorde

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The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way.

William Hurt

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