John Lanchester Quotes
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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.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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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.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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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.
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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.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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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.
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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.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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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.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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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.
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
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I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.
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I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.
