John Lanchester Quotes
The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.
John Lanchester
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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.
Pamela Anderson
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
M. J. Hyland
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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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.''
Larry Wilmore
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Zygmunt Bauman
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
Ornella Muti
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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.
Raghuram Rajan
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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.
Adam Davidson
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.
Erykah Badu
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Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
Alan Ladd
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Brittain
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People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.
Kevin Hart
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I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction.
Johnny Flynn
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The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.
John Lanchester
