David Lagercrantz Quotes
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
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In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
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Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.
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I suspect the Haitian Ministry of Health's principal contribution to health in Haiti is providing nice, healthy jobs to those Haitians with the connection to get them.
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I thought with a shudder of what Old Castro had told Legrasse about the Old Ones; 'They had come from the stars, and had brought Their images with Them.'
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
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The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.
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You know, even U2 took a little time off, and then they came back with a new sound.
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I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that.
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We're no longer a newspaper in the morning, we're a 24/7 newspaper organization.
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And the colors take me down It's no reason to be sad And you leave without a sound It's no reason to be glad...
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I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.
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Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.
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I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.
