John le Carre
Related I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR QUINCY JONES J. D. SOUTHER I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil... HENNING MANKELL GORE VIDAL It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.'... SUSAN CHOI The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought ... CHARLES SOULE CAROL ANN DUFFY RAM DASS When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f... MADISON PETTIS NATE ROBINSON GLEN DUNCAN PAT CONROY LEV GROSSMAN TINA FEY KIM YOUNG-HA JOHNNY CASH CAROLINE KENNEDY NOAM CHOMSKY My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO DAVID ROBINSON The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 1... CONAN STEVENS My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's han... ALAN KING My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t... TERI GARR One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ... CATHERINE TATE My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young. DARYL SABARA DAVID CASSIDY ANNE HECHE My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know ... LUPITA NYONG'O I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all... JOHN GOULD Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about... TED CHIANG KHALED HOSSEINI JAMES PATTERSON TERRY PRATCHETT SOPHIE KINSELLA I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thoug... PATRICIA MCBRIDE DAN BROWN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really ... DANNY BROWN CHRISTY TURLINGTON LUPE FIASCO JOHN G. AVILDSEN When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres... ANNE COX CHAMBERS ALICE MUNRO PETER CAPALDI My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and... ZACH BRAFF TOM DRURY I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'... KEVIN FRAZIER FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG WALTER DEAN MYERS One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own ch... RICK YANCEY AMY TAN ATHOL FUGARD There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not in... KATE LEVERING JIM HARRISON CAROLYN KIZER I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ... WYCLEF JEAN I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that... JENNIFER GRANT DAN BROWN Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents... NATHAN FILLION I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS LOGAN LERMAN Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit beca... FIONA MCINTOSH TORI AMOS I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ... PATRICIA POLACCO I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman... DENIS O'HARE I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by th... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY EVANGELINE LILLY NICOLE KIDMAN CAROLINE KENNEDY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON SUE MONK KIDD When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was... KATHRYN HARRISON I grew up with a lot of brothers, and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really import... MICKALENE THOMAS I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I rememb... CAMERON MACKINTOSH When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike'... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and clean... MARY ROACH KARIN SLAUGHTER LAILA ALI JACKIE CHAN DAVID BOWIE QUEEN LATIFAH 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember ... FEDE ALVAREZ When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist ... SUNIL YAPA ROB LOWE My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de... BARBARA PARK NINA DOBREV It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my... DEBORAH EISENBERG When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of book... DENIS O'HARE GARY VAYNERCHUK TERRY PRATCHETT 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young... JACK WAGNER On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Lo... VALERIE AZLYNN GARRETT HEDLUND My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the wor... JACOB EPSTEIN
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JOHN LE CARRé The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous JOHN LE CARRé Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present. JOHN LE CARRé Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Ou... JOHN LE CARRé You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school... JOHN LE CARRé You should have died when I killed you. JOHN LE CARRé We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fa... JOHN LE CARRé He knew then what it was that Liz had given him; the thing that he would have to go back and find if... JOHN LE CARRé It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey. JOHN LE CARRé Guns have their own silence. It is the silence of the dead to come. JOHN LE CARRé When God finished putting together Dicky Roper, He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He r... JOHN LE CARRé Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere. JOHN LE CARRé A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. JOHN LE CARRé Everyone who is not happy must be shot. JOHN LE CARRé Tomorrow was created yesterday.......And by the day before yesterday, too. TO IGNORE HISTORY IS TO I... JOHN LE CARRé The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing. 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That will only make me think ab... ALAN LE LE CORBUSIER When a book can transport you out of your life and straight into it's story, you know that the autho... JENNIFER LE LE CORBUSIER He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough ... JENNIFER LE LE CORBUSIER This new trend in our activities will open to all our partners, especially those come from these ter... HELEN LE Now we don't have anything. We don't know what to do. LIEM LE We thought when we evacuated it would be like before, a couple days and back. LIEM LE MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN RICHARD LE GALLIENNE RICHARD LE GALLIENNE MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. LE ROI JONES GUSTAVE LE BON The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror. CLAUDE LE PETIT MERIDEL LE SUEUR GUSTAVE LE BON GUSTAVE LE BON GUSTAVE LE BON CAL LE MON EVA LE GALLIENNE GLENN LE GRICE EVA LE GALLIENNE MERIDEL LE SUEUR RICHARD LE GALLIENNE RICHARD LE GALLIENNE GRAEME LE SAUX MARINE LE PEN AMBER LE BON RICHARD LE GALLIENNE MARINE LE PEN CHAD LE CLOS MARINE LE PEN GRAEME LE SAUX MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN CHAD LE CLOS CHAD LE CLOS CHAD LE CLOS CHAD LE CLOS AMBER LE BON MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN MARINE LE PEN Glory is never where virtue is not.
[Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] MARTIN LE FRANC MERIDEL LE SUEUR MARINE LE PEN
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