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"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."
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"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors."
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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music."
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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
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"I'm a real home girl."
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"This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."
Books
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
People
"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
American
"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
Fiction
"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
Mind
"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
Imagination
"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."
Church
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
Books
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
Family
"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it."
Writing
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