David Lagercrantz Quotes

I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be.

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Always
  • Find
  • Racism

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • First
  • Safety
  • Strive

• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • God
  • Trying

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sorrow
  • Misery
  • Stream

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Easy

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Unique
  • Place
  • Special

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Time
  • Inspire

• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Help
  • Desire

• I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.

  

  Mark Walter

• I have the feeling that all stories travel with an understory.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Feeling
  • Travel

• The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Character

• Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Great
  • Words
  • Space

• Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be.

  

  David Lagercrantz
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