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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A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.
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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
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The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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Dad was certainly a free spirit and had his own ways. He was very proud of my golf achievements but more proud of the person I've turned into. He brought me up to lead a very balanced life.
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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.
