Andrew O'Hagan Quotes

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  

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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

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• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

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• Caffeine is a good thing.

  

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• I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

  

  Gary Cole
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• I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

  

  Nader al-Masri
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• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

  

  Dana Delany
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• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  

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• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

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• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
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• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  

  Haley Reinhart
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• Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.

  

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• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

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• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
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• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• If I was to become an icon, then I'd be very happy. I'll need to score a lot of goals, and the team will need to pick up trophies, though.

  

  Anthony Martial
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• Because arguing with racist people is like playing chess with a pigeon: It doesn't matter how good you are! The pigeon is going to knock all the pieces down and shit on the board and parade around like he's won.

  

  Eric Cantona
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• As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.

  

  Jerry Hall
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• I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

  

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• Femininity can be a powerful thing.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
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• When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
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