John Selden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.
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It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
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We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
