Mark Lawrenson Quotes
Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
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Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
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Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
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Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
