James Lasdun Quotes
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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All my life I've been looking for diversity.
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There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
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Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection Empörung leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hopes on 'institutions.'
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The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
