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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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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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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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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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
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I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
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The Italians have shown consistently that they live by the rule of law. They have given these undertakings and we expect them to abide by them.
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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.
