Andrew O'Hagan Quotes
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I would say, yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
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I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.
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I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
