John Lanchester Quotes
One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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We should all love animals.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
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The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
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The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
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I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
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One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.
