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John le Carre Quotes

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Happen West Accountable States Held

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

Looks Group Ladder Class Bottom

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

Family Good Car Pain Small Brand

Louie is hugely talented. But I get very annoyed at the way the media... say, 'Louis C.K. is the greatest stand-up in the world.' He's not the greatest stand-up in the world. He's not funnier than Dave Attell.

World Media Say Way Greatest Get

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

Learn Land Intimacy Would Played

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Life Work Day Yourself People Magic

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Family Parents Me Society Survive

Telling women's stories is really important.

Women Important Telling Stories

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

Work Three Letters Newspaper Asking

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert W. Service

Mountain Brainy Sand You Ahead Shoe

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

Death Me Forward Worry You Look

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

Tomorrow Writing Night Better Doing

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Tax Closing Democrats About Raising

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