John Burdett Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.
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I find it funny to look at people who are people-watching, and, don't get me wrong, I like to people-watch, too. But it's an interesting thing when people on the street just stop and ask you, 'Are you Coco? Can I take a photo of you?'
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Kanban system directs each work center when and what to produce but, more importantly, it directs when not to produce. No card—no production.
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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
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The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
