John Lanchester Quotes

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

John Lanchester

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Development
  • Ignore
  • Product

• No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Day

• I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Focus
  • Never
  • Acting

• The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • People
  • Know
  • Band

• My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goal

• I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Career
  • Political
  • Leadership

• Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Film
  • Crush

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Identity

• I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Interesting
  • Child
  • Internet

• If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Think
  • Present

• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Father
  • Me
  • Religious

• I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Stories
  • Kiss
  • Terrible

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Heart
  • Care
  • Enjoy

• My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Doing
  • Eating

• What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Real
  • Giving

• I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Money
  • Film
  • Reasons

• If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Money
  • House
  • Animal

• Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Political
  • Leader
  • Class

• There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Money