"Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published."

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Source : "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

Jon McGregor

#Lasts Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Week Quotes

“As a sovereign state, we should have operational command of our forces returned to us at an appropriate time. Korea and the United States have already reached an agreement where we will receive operational control of our forces when the conditions are met.”
“I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.”
“If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.”
“When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.”
“Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fanÂtasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.”
“There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.”
“I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.”
“It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on.”

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