John le Carre Quotes

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

John le Carre

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• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Easy

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Pretty
  • Actor
  • Grateful

• I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Means
  • Still

• 'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Child

• Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Country
  • Business
  • Community

• I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • See
  • Paint
  • Therapist

• At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Important
  • Power
  • Together

• On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

  

  Hans Blix
  • War
  • You
  • Global Warming

• Okay, I’m going to go –- now, the one thing I’m going to do is I’m going to go boy, girl, boy, girl to make sure that it’s fair, because one thing I didn’t say in my initial speech is societies that are most successful also treat their women and girls with respect. Otherwise, they won’t be successful.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Respect

• I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Fool

• What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • Work
  • Country
  • Party

• There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine, - The orchard and the mowing fields, The lawns and gardens fine.

  

  Lucy Larcom

• We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • Believe
  • English
  • Language

• You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Film

• It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Good
  • Work

• If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • Death
  • Sleep

• I'm a pretty organised packer, laying out everything beforehand, as I don't like to take extra stuff. I've got a good eye for judging how much I can stuff into one suitcase. I've often not brought the right items, but I'd never avoided a chance to shop, unlike most men.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Pretty

• There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

  

  John le Carre