John Lanchester Quotes

The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

John Lanchester

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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.'

  

  RaeLynn
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  • God
  • True

• I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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  • Too
  • Catty

• 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.

  

  Ed Belfour
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  • Night

• 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.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • You
  • Me

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
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  • Dreams

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  • Years

• 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.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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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.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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  • Fans

• At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

  

  Dan Gelber
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  • Judgment
  • Behavior

• We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

  

  Ma Jun
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  • Environmental

• I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

  

  Lake Bell
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  • System
  • Mess

• I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.

  

  Adam Driver
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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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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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.

  

  A. C. Benson
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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.

  

  Adam Jones
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• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Same

• Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I'm terrified.

  

  Marianne Elliott
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• When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  

  Xun Kuang
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  • Reflect

• I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.

  

  Leah Pipes
  • Soccer

• There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Scared

• The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

  

  John Lanchester
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