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Alain de Botton Quotes

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: December 20, 1969

Topics

Nature Myself Day Start Write Waste

I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

Ride Bike People Saying Bicycle Bad

I love Viola Davis. I call her 'Queen.' I think she's phenomenal. She's so raw and so bold. When I first saw her was in 'Doubt,' and she just changed everything for me. Her performance was unlike anything I had ever seen before, and I think she's phenomenal.

Love Queen Me Performance Think She

The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now.

Beauty Internet Now Anybody

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

Empathy Problems Movies More Than

The phenomenon that is 'Game Of Thrones' has propelled many actors associated with it into the minds of directors and producers, and it's a fabulous position to be in. It's because it's so adored and respected, of such high quality with such amazing cinematography.

Quality Amazing Game Minds High

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

Drive Thinking You Know Important

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

Great Time Experience Book Think

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

Deborah Moggach

Gardening Garden Mad Three Side

Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front of people. It's a totally different energy. With film, TV, you want to try to capture lightning-in-a-bottle moments. I don't try to rehearse as much with that stuff, because you want those sparks of something to come out, if they do.

Christopher Abbott

Time People Energy Doing Moments

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Good Father Me Think End Go

Unfortunately, my football career wasn't very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of months.

Football Long Career Matter Reason

We take better care of our smartphones than we do of ourselves - the phones are always recharged!

Arianna Huffington

Care Better Phones Always Take Than

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