John Lanchester Quotes
By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
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I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
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I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
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It is very important that we take care of our health.
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All recurring joy is pain refined.
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There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.
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Will Smith. He's been my career idol for years and years. I used to sit back and watch and study 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' over and over. It's the only TV show that I've watched all the way through maybe five times.
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By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.
