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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I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.
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If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
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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.
