Andrew O'Hagan Quotes
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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You must warn people not to make the intellect their God. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling. If one doesn't play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose.
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I never expected that this would be my life.
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The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.