John Lanchester Quotes
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
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It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
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We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias built into the artificial intelligence of the future.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.
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The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
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AI might be a powerful technology, but things won't get better simply by adding AI.
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I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.
