John Lanchester Quotes

Nando's is a casual restaurant rather than a fast-food one - another aspirational touch. The food is energetically spiced, where so many of its competitors are bland and grilled to order, where the competition fries food and then lets it sit around.

John Lanchester

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FoodCompetitionRestaurantTouch

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Jennifer Garner

EducationPeopleMomPovertyPlace

I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane.

Robert Scoble

LoveBusinessExperienceStepPeople

It's unfortunate that all business gets painted as wanting to oppose the environment and slow change.

Robert J. Fisher

ChangeBusinessSlowEnvironment

Losing has an unbelievably negative impact on me.

Jeff Van Gundy

LosingMeNegativeImpact

The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.

Stacy Schiff

SheTwoLivesLeadsUnderstands

I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.

Steve Wynn

AnimalWillRightsShowChanged

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

Michael Owen

FootballYourselfStartChanceThink

I usually just try to do whatever's on the page because I've done research before - including a lot of analysis - but you end up with conflicting data. To me, the script is king.

Michael Pena

KingMeResearchEndDataYou

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Juan Felipe Herrera

ParentsCityRanchJustLikeCrops

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

Jon Pardi

GoodYouLookWriteOutPark

A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.

Johnny Knoxville

MeThinkDoingDangerousGoTry

For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.

Ava DuVernay

MenWomanThinkNeverThingsCrew

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