Patrick O'Brian Quotes
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.
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According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.
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I do know what it's like to be an outsider.
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About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
