John Lanchester Quotes

It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We decide in what we will have markets, and we decide how the rules work and how they'll conduct themselves.

John Lanchester

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WorkMenMeRulesWillDecide

Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it's rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I'm going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.

Andra Day

TogetherSoulPeopleMeJazzRock

Being 36 years old changes you a lot, and so does eight years away from career, fame, needing attention, needing to be loved by strangers on some level. I was loving anonymity. I was loving the fact that I could meet a girl who didn't know who I was. I enjoyed it very much, I have to say.

Maxwell

GirlLovedAttentionYouCareerSay

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Maxine Peake

DayYourselfEnd Of The DayEndYou

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!

Stormzy

MusicSchoolMeCareerChoiceStudy

I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.

Jonas Mekas

FutureChallengeMomentI AmReality

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Donald Trump

GreatThinkThoughtProcessJustHe

I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.

Corin Tucker

FunInfluenceSongThinkGuitarYou

When I started, I was a theater actress, and there were roles that I couldn't imagine not playing, like Rosalind in 'As You Like It.' I used to think I would die if I could play that. But then I started doing movies, and I had children, and I moved to Los Angeles. And now I kind of can't remember what those roles would be.

Annette Bening

ChildrenThinkDieDoingRemember

It is indeed fitting for me to make a comment to the effect that it takes a village to raise a child because I have lived in many villages down in deep south, and everyone there who played a part in my stewardship as a young man growing up and as a professional, they have given me unstinting support.

Anthony Carmona

ManSupportChildMeGrowing Up

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

Philip Massinger

OthersFirstMasterWouldGovernHe

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

Susan Molinari

WomenWorking TogetherMenTogether

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

Tyler Joseph

PeopleClimbAttentionWantFirst

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