John Lanchester Quotes
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
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When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
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Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
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I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.
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One of the things that I've realized in my life is that nothing really happens unless people believe in you.
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I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
