Andrew O'Hagan Quotes
When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing of ordinary life and its political mysteries.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
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I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something like that - enter into a new venture - it keeps you very busy.
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Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing of ordinary life and its political mysteries.
