Jonathan Raban Quotes

Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

Jonathan Raban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 14, 1942

Topics

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You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

Jenny Lewis

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Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

John Ensign

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I love Comic Con.

Megan Fox

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

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I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

Robert Wyatt

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I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

Julia Quinn

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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

Josh Holloway

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After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.

Johnny Depp

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I feel that one of the fields that I need to learn a lot is screenwriting. I used to write my own screenplays, but it's just that I remember that at that time, I was saying to myself, 'I wish one day I will meet a screenwriter that will help me because I feel that I need to learn.'

Denis Villeneuve

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When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

Bobby Knight

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I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

Bob Iger

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