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.
Imelda May -
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
Hans Hofmann -
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
Naomi Scott -
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
Abby Elliott -
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 -
My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
Maggie Q
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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.
Ted Yoho -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
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 -
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 -
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal -
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
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
Ralph Steadman -
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 -
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 -
I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
Canelo Alvarez -
In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
Adam D'Angelo -
My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
Venus Williams
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I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
Clyde Tombaugh -
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
Plutarch -
I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
Len Wein -
Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.
Bassam Tibi -
I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.
Jeanne Tripplehorn -
There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.
John Lanchester