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I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.


John Fowles

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JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP