Mark Lawson quotes

“Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.”
-- Mark Lawson

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“I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to trail Mehan Asnik, a suspected terrorist, through the streets of London. He had escaped from our security services while infected with a plague virus. Tracking him on CCTV, I swear I had him but then, in the rush-hour bustle, lost him. When the secure mobile rang, it was Harry Pearce at Thames House, chewing me out for the slaughter that had been caused by my mistake.”
-- Mark Lawson

Source : "TV matters: Spooks Interactive" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.”
-- Mark Lawson

Source : "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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“One of the things which separates British and American culture is the reverence for the flag in American culture.”
-- Mark Lawson

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

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“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”

“Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.119, Macmillan

“Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.”

“You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.”

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

Source : New Yorker, 14 May 1960

“Take it from me, every vote counts.”

“Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.”

Source : "Raw Data: Democratic Debate, Part I". "Fox News" with Gwenn Ifill, www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2003.

“The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.”

“I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...”

Source : Song: Meat And Potato Man, Album: When Somebody Loves You, 2000

“Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?”