Patrick O'Brian Quotes

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.

Patrick O'Brian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 12, 1914 - January 2, 2000

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With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

Joe Morton

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My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.

Jessica Hart

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Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

Jemima Kirke

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Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

John Lydon

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I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.

Steve Martin

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After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities.

Tony Jaa

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I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

Rithy Panh

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It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.

Monica Johnson

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I launched more formal elections investigations than any secretary of state in Missouri history, and we didn't get a single complaint about voter impersonation fraud - not one.

Jason Kander

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If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, I get to say I was in a movie.

Dean Ambrose

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I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

Chris Cornell

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My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence.

Chris Borland

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