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Simon Hoggart Quotes

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: May 26, 1946

Topics

Dinner Party Washington Funeral

I've been out now for so many years that I am not surprised at what someone may occasionally say. It really doesn't faze me.

I Am Me Someone Now Say Out

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

Child Me Die Alive Said Within

I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.

John Lanchester

Think Strange Sound Scary Anything

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

Solange Knowles

Opportunity Yourself Stand Up Stand

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

Men Powerful Country Kind Most How

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Think Comedy Healthy Authority

Looking back, I do think one of the reasons 'Thirteen Reasons Why' has been so successful is not because it deals with serious issues but because I had a unique and interesting way to tell that story. I knew the issues were going to be dealt with in the book, but I felt my job was to write the story as entertainingly as possible.

Job Looking Back Looking Book Think

The objective is to do things well in London.

London Things Well Objective

In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Black Feel America Rubbish I Feel

I've got Peter Pan syndrome. It's not that I refuse to grow up - I love building businesses; I want to be a good husband, a good father. But I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be normal.

Love Good Father Building Husband

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Christopher Hitchens

Age Myself People Face Think Say

Women are more likely to have a ruptured uterus if they've had multiple C-sections because there's more scar tissue.

Christy Turlington

Women More Because Women Are Tissue

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