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John Lanchester Quotes

My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.

John Lanchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Proud Way Irish Being Very

I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.

Work Truth Responsibility Think Some

There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.

Words Nobody Know Three Knows Third

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.

Marriage Time Short Talk Over Gone

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Life Life Is A Fiction Means

If you want to retire as a multimillionaire, then you need to start saving as early as you can.

Start You Early Want Need Retire

With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings.

Live Character Start End Finding Go

You don't try to fix things that aren't broken.

Broken You Try Fix Things

I spent a lot of my life afraid as a kid, even throughout high school.

Life School High School My Life High

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.

Love Myself World You Said Write

I have no tax delinquency problem, nor have I ever.

Problem Tax Ever Nor

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Life Smile Rainbow Tomorrow Clouds

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

People Say Explore Mean People Say

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