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.John le Carre
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Damien Hirst -
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Rabih Alameddine -
My work was entirely nonfiction.
Laura Hillenbrand -
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.
Lata Mangeshkar -
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
Randy Houser -
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.
Zac Brown Band -
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.
Kate Christensen -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut -
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
Beck
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
Maluma -
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
Kara Swisher -
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Lady Gaga -
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
Ed Stoppard -
Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
Talcott Parsons
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I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.
Bryan White -
Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways. It sets your mind free because you don't have a history with the language. You have to use the most direct way of communication, which is saying what you want to say in the way you can.
Anna Ternheim -
For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.
Chris Pine -
The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
John le Carre