"Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself"

-- Frank Langella

#Revelations Quotes #Thick Of It Quotes

“It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.”
“Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number of literary geniuses, and at some level I probably never felt, having left as a toddler, that I had the right to try and add my voice. That's part of it. But I also didn't want to write something that was the equivalent of the Irish theme pub. You find them all over the world. The idea of producing a novel that might replicate that type of ersatz really set my teeth on edge.”
“I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.”
“Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.”
“I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.”
“She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his cups and he drunkenly confessed to still feeling scores of wounds that werenâ€™t his own, but those of men under his command.”
“Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ...”

Source : Gillian Roberts (2011). “Caught Dead in Philadelphia”, p.9, Untreed Reads
“I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.”

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