John Selden Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
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For it is not without cause that one needs the police and the army to earn one's living or force and injustice to continue to exist.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
