- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
- Nov 07, 2020
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Designation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020