John Lanchester Quotes
The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.
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We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.
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Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.
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The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.
