John Lanchester Quotes
Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.
John Lanchester
Quotes to Explore
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
Ted Yoho
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Zig Ziglar
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
Cameron Crowe
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
Fede Alvarez
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
Victor Hugo
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
Taissa Farmiga
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
Sam Graves
