John Lanchester Quotes

France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.

John Lanchester

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• The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.

  

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

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• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

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• No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

  

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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

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• I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'

  

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• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  

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• We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.

  

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• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

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• My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!

  

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• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

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• I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.

  

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• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  

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• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  

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• People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

  

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• For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

  

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• I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

  

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• Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

  

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• France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Cooking
  • Tolerance