John Lanchester Quotes
The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there is in the novel about the world of money.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.
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People think fashion shows take hours - it's 15 minutes. You walk in, do red carpet, take the pictures, you sit down... and then it's over.
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
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Uruguayans are competitive, and we always want to win. Even though we try to hide it, it is impossible.
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The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there is in the novel about the world of money.
