Len Deighton Quotes
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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But I think we need the international market.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
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On the plane home I remember thinking that I am who I am because I have faith in myself, and it has always been the possibility of emotionally rewarding the experiences that has encouraged me to gamble on myself; those experiences have made all that I do worthwhile.
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My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.
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Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.
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I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
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“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
