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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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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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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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.
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What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
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The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
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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.
