John Lanchester Quotes
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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I study to learn, to be an educated person.
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I don't read the critics.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
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There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.
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The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
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I've been through so many changes in my life womanIt's a wonder I ain't lost my mindAnd I ain't never said how much I need you sugarBut I sho' need you by my side.My love, just thinking about you babyJust blows my mind.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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Cast in this unlikely roleIll-equipped to actWith insufficient tactOne must put up barriersTo keep oneself intact - Limelight (1981)
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The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.
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Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.
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Women in America... cannot trust Mitt Romney to protect our health.
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It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.
