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John Lanchester Quotes

'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.

John Lanchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: February 25, 1962

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Insurance True Dead Out Only Python

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

Jennifer Capriati

People Me World Know Mean Kids

Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world.

John McLaughlin

World Him Miles He Himself Davis

'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.

Funny Age Hell White Teeth She

I think this is how life is. It's not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.

Life Age Time Think You March

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

Direction Doing Filmmaking Way Been

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.

Quality Poetry Quantity Fortunate

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Fear Sleep You Stop Creating Want

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

Children Parents World Tools Goal

It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.

Work True Fiction Much Did Many

My idea about football is to play well, but even if you can't always play well, one thing I want is your character, your spirit. That is all I can ask of you.

Claudio Ranieri

Character Football You I Can Play

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Education Live Children Health Food

I collect records pretty assiduously, so I've got, like, a massive record collection. I still DJ.

DJ Pretty Got Records Still Like

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