John Lanchester Quotes

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

John Lanchester

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RealityRealOutAbstractSomething

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

John Carpenter

LifeLoveAgeCourageRestYou

When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.

Joe Wright

LifeMyselfCollegeWorldMy Life

I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.

Andrew Wylie

GoodMeSmallBadI CanGo

All one has to do is look at old footage of the firebombing of Dresden during World War II and think of the people beneath those bombs. It's horrific.

Michael Cimino

WarPeopleWorldThinkLookOld

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

Sonya Hartnett

HopeChildrenPeopleMeStoryWrite

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone.

Roger Penrose

AloneMathematicsProblemsYouCome

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

Joyce Carol Oates

GoodMyselfEffortOpinionBookOut

I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.

Christie Brinkley

BrotherMomBecomeOldVegetarian

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Bryant H. McGill

IdentityCrisisMaterialism

Being in a male-dominated industry, you can feel like a little excluded. That was making me feel like maybe I'm not funny. I was really seriously considering, like, quitting standup.

Phoebe Robinson

FunnyMeFeelYouSeriouslyLittle

I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.

Peter Nygard

MotherMeMedicineThinkLovedYear

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

Shawn Ashmore

GoodDoorLordRingsUsDifferent

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