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It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.


Julian Ovenden

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JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going...
JULIAN BOND It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.
JULIAN CASTRO No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not ...
JULIAN BAGGINI Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
JULIAN ASSANGE It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o...
JULIAN BAGGINI It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship,...
JULIAN BAGGINI As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A...
JULIAN CASTRO The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incr...
JULIAN SANDS I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I would have nailed Bond.
JULIAN MCMAHON Morally, the show challenges itself consistently. To be honest, sometimes I don't know where the mor...
JULIAN MCMAHON You and I are mothers. You are our leader. You know a mother's love. Please help and intervene,
JULIAN MCMAHON Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
JULIAN MCMAHON By the time Van died everyone involved in the case knew the prison workers had only been kindly to h...
JULIAN MCMAHON Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in qu...
JULIAN BAGGINI