People Quotes
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
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My fans have been so great. I'll go on fansites and read messages they put, and they all seem like really nice people.
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When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
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I don't like being over-friendly, as people could take me for granted.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs.
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The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.
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Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
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In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person.
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
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Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way.
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Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
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I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
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I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
