Theodore Zeldin Quotes

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

Theodore Zeldin

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I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

Andrew Sean Greer

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Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

Andrew Sean Greer

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We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live - at least for me, that's the way I want to write.

Meg Wolitzer

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The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.

Michael Frome

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I certainly wouldn't want to be the man who was compared to John Ritter through my eyes.

Amy Yasbeck

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I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Stephen Dorff

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If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

Spalding Gray

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I work with my brother a lot, and we don't fight - probably because it's not two girls. And he's six years older. But I have daughters who are three years apart, and they fight all the time.

Sofia Coppola

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Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.

Shreya Ghoshal

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Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

Ronald Burkle

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I love getting dressed up in a suit because I don't do it all the time.

Jason Statham

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My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

Don Baylor

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