John Le
John Le
dozen doing-nothing reason
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
love dream rewards
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
inspirational leadership reality
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
country philosophy years
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.
believe watched
I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
began foreign understood wrote
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.
awful behave club couple guys hard human marriage mess normal pounds struggling suddenly thousand writers
I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.