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 the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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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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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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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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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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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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I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.
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Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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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.
