Nigel Lawson Quotes

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.

Nigel Lawson

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I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Joe Shuster

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My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.

Andrew Whitworth

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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.

Meg Wolitzer

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I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.

Jeff Goodell

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Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.

Amy Gerstler

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Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.

Stephen Graham Jones

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I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Spike Lee

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I honestly thought that 'Tangled' was going to be my Disney legacy.

Roy Conli

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Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

Michael Moore

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Being labeled as someone who would cheat hurts more than anything else I've ever been through in my career.

Jon Jones

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I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

Douglas Conant

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