John Lanchester Quotes
The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.
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Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
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I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.
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The development of the Internet has posed new challenges to national sovereignty, security and development interests.
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The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.
