Citas de Andrew O'Hagan

• Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  People, Stranger, Knows

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• A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

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  Struggle, People, Principles

  "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

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• No leemos para pasar el tiempo, sino para habitar el tiempo.

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  Wise (Sabio)

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• I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.

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  Powerful, Mean, Winning

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• The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

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  Someone You Love, Firsts, One You Love

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• Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

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  Art, Mean, Selected

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• Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

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  Football, Passion, Fans

  "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are. My writers are in the thick of it and they seek the truth, rather than embody it, and sometimes they find truths that don't sit palatably or easily together. That's life. That's personality. And that's writing.

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  Writing, Personality, Together

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• Creo que me estoy volviendo obsesivo-compulsivo. Por lo visto, David Beckham gira todas las latas de Coca-Cola light de su nevera para que miren hacia el mismo lado todas las mañanas, y yo le saco punta a todos los lápices de mi bote antes de sentarme a trabajar.

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  Morning, Thinking, Sitting Down

  "Writers' rooms: Andrew O'Hagan" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2007.

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• 'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

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  Reality, Granted, Notion

  "Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

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  Years, Names, Once Upon A Time

  "Looking back on New Labour" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• Viajar solo ofrece la oportunidad de poner a prueba los límites de lo que uno cree conocer de sí mismo.

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  Thinking, Tests, Limits

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• The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

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  Dream, Jobs, Winning

  "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.

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  Loneliness, Home, Dark

  "Party of one" by Andrew O'Hagan, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 09, 2013.

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• It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own movies... I remember consulting a film book and discovering that Arthur Freed decided to shoot Brigadoon in Hollywood because nowhere in Scotland looked Scottish enough.

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  Country, Book, Scotland

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• Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

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  Children, Believe, Age

  "Andrew O'Hagan on fiction's talking animals". www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2010.

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• I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

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  Arte, Empleo, Creer

  "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

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  Football, Brother, Boys

  "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Dado que la mayoría de las películas son malas, y que hay categorías y subcategorías enteras de maldad -la secuela, la película de Madonna, la serie Viernes 13 o las películas protagonizadas por John Travolta antes de Pulp Fiction-, es casi imposible elegir una sola película como peor película de todos los tiempos. Pero, extrañamente, tengo una nominación y creo que en realidad es la peor película de todos los tiempos. Se trata de Boxing Helena. La directora es la hija de David Lynch, y la película viene acompañada de los defectos casi demenciales que la conexión familiar podría implicar.

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  Friday, Daughter, Believe

  "If I'd made that, I'd change my name". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2004.

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• It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

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  Shame, Crime, Know Yourself

  Andrew O'Hagan (2010). “Be Near Me”, p.231, Faber & Faber

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• Escribir una novela es tanto un acto de autoaniquilación como de autodescubrimiento. Puedes matar apetitos enteros e inundar profundidades enteras mientras las sondeas, pero si te lo tomas en serio también consigues poner en el mundo algo que antes no estaba del todo ahí.

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  Writing, Discovery, Self

  "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

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  Ideas, Personas, Deberían

  "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• Interviewing is not a democratic art.

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  Art, Democratic

  "Vanishing act" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

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• A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

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  Art, Museums, Breathing

  "Why public spaces must allow private thoughts" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Como escritor, me preocupo por Estados Unidos y me preocupan sus descuidos.

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  America, Care, I Care

  Andrew O'Hagan (2010). “The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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