James Lasdun Quotes
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that’s exactly how God has treated you.
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We were producing 'La La Land'... and then we weren't. So it was a very painful topic, but I'm happy the movie was as successful as it was. And, of course, I wish we had produced it.
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There are insane people who wish to rule the world. They wish to continue to rule the world on violence and repression, and we are all the victims of that violence and repression.
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My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.
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Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.
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I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
