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John le Carre Quotes

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: October 19, 1931

Topics

Service Butterfly Writing Name You

I've met people with my prints tattooed on them, my face tattooed on them - I have that commitment and love.

Jeremy Scott

Love Commitment People Face Prints

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

Michael Bond

Blue People Writing Story Short Go

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Michael Eric Dyson

Money People Clothes Dark Wrong Who

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

Meryl Streep

Thought Remember Last Would Movie

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

Shiv Khera

Positive Success Action Thinking

Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are such legends.

Rory O'Malley

Legends Martin Lawrence

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.

Martin O'Malley

People America Crime Greatest Cities

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.

Joseph Jarman

Compassion Together School Me Down

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

Donny Osmond

Friend Home Children Parents Help

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

Chris Evans

Love Fall Glory Blood Movies Out

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.

Shane Dawson

Me Look Create Nobody Way Shell

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Sean Lennon

People Trying Artist Out Sell Means