John Lanchester Quotes
The Chinese are much too sensible to like turkey - come to think of it, I don't think I've ever encountered turkey anywhere in East Asia, either in a market or on a menu.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.
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I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.
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You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
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A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
Biz Stone -
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
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I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly.
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The Chinese are much too sensible to like turkey - come to think of it, I don't think I've ever encountered turkey anywhere in East Asia, either in a market or on a menu.
