Len Deighton Quotes

The factory workers say that it’s impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, 'Where did you get the watch?'

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• Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

  

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• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
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• I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

  

  Sam Harris
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• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.

  

  Washed Out
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• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
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• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

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• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
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• Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

  

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• I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.

  

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• I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
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• Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.

  

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• Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

  

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• I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.

  

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• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
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• The factory workers say that it’s impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, 'Where did you get the watch?'

  

  Len Deighton
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