Lynn Barber Quotes
What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I always played to win.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
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My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.
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The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.
