Andrew O'Hagan Quotes

I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

Andrew O'Hagan

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My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

Jerry Heller

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Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.

Jennifer Saunders

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SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's different, it's hard to find your place.

Andrew Haigh

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Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

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I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

Sky Ferreira

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Sheffield

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Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.

Mary Gaitskill

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My advice is try something you've never done before or maybe something that's not as popular.

Michelle Carter

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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Louise Bourgeois

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Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

Jarvis Cocker

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I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music.

Jonathan Levine

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I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

Dennis Quaid

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