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Ian Hislop Quotes

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: July 13, 1960

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Time Start Thought Doing Long Worth

I don't really love writing. I don't love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.

Love Writing Overcoming Feeling New

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

Me Voice My Own Listen More Hard

I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.

People Law Intellectual Class Never

I liked being in a smaller theater. I love doing shows of all sizes, but sometimes it's nice to be in a smaller space and to strip away some of the music so that you can be a little less than larger-than-life; you can be a little more naturalistic.

Love Music Space Doing You Nice

In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed.

Robert J. Sawyer

Best Blessed Feel Atheist Sense

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Matthew McConaughey

Cool Never Litter Things Many

I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.

Ugly Person Trash See Out Pretty

What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

Money Someone You Years Out Asking

I'm quite un-traditional.

Lizzie Armitstead

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

Christine Quinn

Woman People Me Win Feel Tell

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

Communication Art People Why Vacuum

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

Ideas Night Wake Up Up Middle Wake

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