John Lanchester Quotes
The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world has been used as a pizza topping and liked by somebody, somewhere.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
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The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world has been used as a pizza topping and liked by somebody, somewhere.
