Jonathan Raban Quotes
When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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We believe we are ready to buy heavily on the European and US markets, and we have been considering a number of large facilities that we are planning to buy.
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I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.
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There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
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Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.
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The Oscars is always the most special event of Awards Season and is the grand finale - there's just something about the atmosphere that makes it magical.
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When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.
