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.John Lanchester
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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.
Babasaheb -
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.
Zoe Saldana -
I don't like the blame game, though.
Barbara Bush -
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells -
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. Stine -
I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
Zac Efron
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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.
Imelda Staunton -
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King -
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Revenge doesn't stop.
Daniel Craig -
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton -
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.
Barry Diller
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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.
Saint Augustine -
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
Brown Campbell -
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.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
Laura Lippman -
I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
Rachelle Lefevre
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
Natalie Merchant -
I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.
Allison Janney -
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
Francesca Lia Block -
I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.
Jill Clayburgh -
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.
John Lanchester