Jonathan Raban Quotes
Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I received free health care.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.
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I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I always just loved to laugh. I always just loved it as a kid.
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Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.
