Jonathan Raban Quotes
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?
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My mom is a sculptress.
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch', a Will Smith thing.
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I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love.
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Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'
