John le Carre Quotes
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
Quotes to Explore
-
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
-
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
-
My work was entirely nonfiction.
-
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
-
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
-
Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
-
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
-
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
-
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
-
I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
-
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
-
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
-
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
-
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
-
I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
-
There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
-
Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.
-
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
-
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
-
Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.
-
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
