Andrew O'Hagan Quotes

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

Andrew O'Hagan

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If I had met Judd Nelson in my late twenties, I would have been pretty enamored!

Jeremy Sisto

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I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.

Angela Duckworth

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I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead.

Stephen Moyer

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I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

Stanley Hauerwas

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For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.

Treat Williams

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The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it.

Lou Doillon

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And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.

Jonah Goldberg

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I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for being beautiful, so they have to prove to everybody they have personality and they are intelligent.

Derek Hough

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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.

Deeyah Khan

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I was very lucky both of my parents had really nice skin.

Susan Lucci

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For sure, there were days while building my business from the ground up that challenged me more than others, and maybe I just wanted to stay home and not face anyone, but I've always thought about the people on my team and their families, and the choice was easy: man up.

Todd Wilcox

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