John Lanchester Quotes
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
Edmund White -
Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
Wayne Dyer -
There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
Wen Jiabao -
I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
Larry Holmes -
I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
Adam Green -
I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
Oliver Sim The xx
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They call me Fearless Felix.
Felix Baumgartner -
I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
Kat Dennings -
I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
Abby Wambach -
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
Patrick Swayze -
I am just an ordinary Catholic.
Maggie Gallagher -
I personally like to do independent films.
Famke Janssen
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
Hari Kunzru -
The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
Ian Mckellen -
Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
Tanith Lee -
The Idealization of deep flaws seeping through coiled cracks;The reality we all want to avoid is a plagued sickness we choose to live with.
Frances Bean Cobain -
The weather is so very mildThat some would call it warm.Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?Here comes a thunderstorm.
Ogden Nash -
What kind of fool am I?I never fell in love.
Leslie Bricusse
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I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.
Coco Chanel -
In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.
Neil Innes -
I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.
Alan Dale -
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
Archie Shepp -
I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.
Christy Turlington -
You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.
John Lanchester