John le Carre Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I write novels and other things.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
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I drink therefore I am.
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
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Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
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I always knew I wanted a family because of the way I grew up. Family has always been the most important thing.
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What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
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There's so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too.
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.
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I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.
