John Lanchester Quotes

I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.

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• I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Phone
  • iPad

• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Storm
  • News
  • Complexity

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
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• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Real
  • Friendship

• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Country
  • War
  • Day

• My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Reason
  • Interest
  • Impact

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Me
  • Fortunate
  • Miss

• The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Person
  • Years
  • First

• Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • True
  • Dream

• There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • People
  • Time

• Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
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  • World
  • Music

• Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Up
  • Dream

• I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.

  

  John Lanchester
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