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Justin Cartwright Quotes

When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike's, 'The Coup', which is set in Africa and will come as a delightful surprise to anyone who has only read his Americana.

Justin Cartwright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1945

Topics

Book Surprise Serious Will Africa

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

Maurice Jarre

Change Music Bad Nervous Become

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

Matt Groening

Know Why Will Again Enjoyed Did

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

John Wooden

Life High Low Valleys Get Peaks

The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Life People Angel You Way Need

I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me.

Sia

Me Want Paparazzi Followed

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

Tony Shalhoub

Work Health People Mental Health

I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

Tom Scholz

Song You I Can Place Know Boston

Being a sci-fi geek, it was just lovely to be on a show where I pretend I'm in outer space. That's always been my dream: to pretend to be out in space or actually be out in space.

Ming-Na Wen

Space Dream Lovely Outer Space Out

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Dionne Warwick

Good Marriage Relationship Myself

New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment.

Dee Rees

New York People New Judgment Without

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Colin Quinn

Long Line Guy Just Who He

There are now two Syrias. One is run by men who fight for God, not democracy. The other is ruled by a secular but authoritarian regime accused of many crimes against its people. The choice between the two will not be decided at the polls.

Paul Wood

God Men Fight People Democracy Run