John Lanchester Quotes
I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.John Lanchester
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
Mallory Jansen -
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
Fanny Howe -
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
Zara Phillips -
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
J. B. Pritzker -
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
Gary Johnson -
People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
Gary Hume -
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal -
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
Vera Farmiga
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade -
In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
Zachary Taylor -
You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
Francesca Annis -
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
Waris Ahluwalia
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If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.
Pat Cadigan -
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
John Singleton -
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
D. H. Lawrence -
Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
Dan O'Brien -
I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.
John Lanchester