John Lanchester Quotes
Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.
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I got no hate in me.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
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Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.
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I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
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I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.
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Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.
