John Leeson Quotes
No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
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I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
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I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
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For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
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A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
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Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.
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It's really one-stop shopping for the music fan.
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A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
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I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field.
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No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
