John Lanchester Quotes
I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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I love football.
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I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible
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Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.
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There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
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I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since.
