With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.
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MARTIN JACQUES It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - vi... MARTIN JACQUES The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w... MARTIN JACQUES The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg... JACQUES VERGES Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w... JACQUES LACAN My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist... JACQUES DELORS I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles. BRIAN JACQUES I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. JACQUES DERRIDA It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this, BRIAN JACQUES I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha! BRIAN JACQUES I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --... BRIAN JACQUES Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it, BRIAN JACQUES I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f... BRIAN JACQUES Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is. BRIAN JACQUES Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th... BRIAN JACQUES Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins... JACQUES LACAN