Clive James (Vivian Leopold James) Quotes
Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.
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The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.
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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.
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I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
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Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.
