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.
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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.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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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.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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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.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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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.
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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.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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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.
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' – 126th Street and Normandy, South Central, Los Angeles. I remember that I was on my porch. What they described in that song was so vivid and so clear to me because it was the kind of life I was used to witnessing and partly experiencing in my neighborhood.
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There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.
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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?'
