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 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 never thought about being famous.

  

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• I'm totally myself.

  

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• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

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• I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.

  

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• Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

  

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• We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.

  

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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.

  

  John Lanchester
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Pizza