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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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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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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Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.
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I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
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'My grandfather always says that's what books are for,' Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. 'To travel without moving an inch.'
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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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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'
