John Lanchester Quotes

I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have a word count for every day: 500 for fiction, 1,000 for non-fiction, and journalism is 1,500. That's a level I can sustain.

John Lanchester

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I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

Robert Mundell

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Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

Steve Forbes

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In 'The World Set Free,' the world's major superpowers attack each other simultaneously.

Tom Reiss

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I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

Mickey Rourke

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Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.

Mike McCready

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I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes.

April Bloomfield

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What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.

Peter Capaldi

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By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

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My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

Rick Ross

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President Obama believes getting along is more valuable than standing firm for U.S. interests.

Richard Grenell

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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Moshe Sharett

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