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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When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever – I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.
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There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.
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The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
