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Quote by Jonathan Meades

“I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.”

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Jonathan Meades is a British writer, critic, and documentary filmmaker, born on January 21, 1947. His work is known for its unique perspective and satirical tone, covering a wide range of fields including architecture, art, and culture. more

“If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because you engage with it actively in a way that you wouldn't if you were just passing through or if you were going to St Helens to visit family or if it was a place that made you resentful because you'd always wanted to escape from there.”

Ifs Way Writing Made Wanted Interesting Sight Passing Passings Damn Passing Through Resentful

Author:Jonathan Meades

“If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.”

Ifs Way I Can Force Interest Components

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“The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.”

Kind Light Government Individual Bulbs Light Bulb

Author:Michele Bachmann

“When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.”

Writing Firsts Book Criticism Magazines Eccentric Literary Criticism Early 20s

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“When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.”

Writing Character Fiction Environment Realising Incidents Retrospect Writing Fiction

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“I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents' house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.”

Knows Want Children Wanted Past Used House Maps Stations Grandparent Surveys Headquarters Southampton Ordnance Grandparents House

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“I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.”

People Ifs Play Actors Talking Audience Seeing Stage Theatre People Talking

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“I've been offered radio but never done it, partly because the radio ideas that I've been asked to come up with, I've thought about them and then converted them to telly things.”

Ideas Done Come Up Radio

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“I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.”

Believe I Believe Don't Believe Mediums Synergy

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