"Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers."

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Source : "A life in books". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

Simon Mawer

#People Quotes #Saws Quotes #Type Quotes

“I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As we go forward in attempting to control bump drafting in those areas, there's going to be some very subjective calls being made. That's the reason we'd like to get this under way as quickly as possible. ... Hopefully we don't have to make a call. But if we do make a call in the twins, it wouldn't be quite as painful as having to make it in the Daytona 500.”
“...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.”
“Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders”
“We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.”
“I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.”
“Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.”
“A threesome with a mother and her two twins.”

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