John Lanchester Quotes

I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.

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• People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
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• Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Religion
  • Fight

• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

  

  Ovid
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  • Body
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• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Human

• In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dumb
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• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Creativity
  • Just
  • Motherhood

• I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Think

• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Religion
  • Recognition

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Eyes

• Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Know

• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Lawyer
  • Rule

• When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Live
  • Business

• I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.

  

  Claire Cameron
  • People

• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Political

• Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • World
  • Today
  • Community

• Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

  

  Cary Fowler
  • Community
  • Action
  • Diversity

• I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Community