John Lanchester Quotes
In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."
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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
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I am from Colorado. I know Colorado inside and out.
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My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.
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In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.
