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awards style trying
For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles. Charles Stross
awards would-be knighthood
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life. Alan Bennett
awards upset female
All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something. Bernie Mac
awards acting campaigns
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. Bill Murray
awards serious winner
I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious. Charlize Theron
awards mediocrity badges
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. Charles Ives
awards best british celebrate chance commend contribute gives incredible london winners
The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world. Natalie Massenet
awards love robert seem
When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob. Jennifer Nettles
awards giving discouraging
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging. Barbra Streisand
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
mechanic conviction should
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mechanics until
We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch. Bryan Price
mechanic focused
I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally. Barry Zito
mechanical plane sat seattle sent waited
The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.
mechanic mere poetry tune
Made poetry a mere mechanic art; / And every warbler has his tune by heart. William Cowper
mechanics smart
She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher.
mechanics simple
I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get. Mark Prior
mechanics movement today wild
He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying. Mike Lieberthal
mechanics taught
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel. Alan Furst