Len Deighton Quotes
'...But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences' 'Is there anything you can take for it?' 'Only wedding vows'
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.
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Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.
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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
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'...But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences' 'Is there anything you can take for it?' 'Only wedding vows'
