An-education Quote by Lynn Barber

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

— Lynn Barber

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

— Lynn Barber

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect…

— Lynn Barber

“...Everything I had learned or assimilated from my parents I now regarded as unreliable, and needing to be rethought from scratch. In fact, I…

— Lynn Barber

I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

— Lynn Barber

“...I’m never exactly a slave to facts at the best of times. But does it matter? Who owns memories after all?”

— Lynn Barber

“I was just not cut out to be an American journalist. In England, I could phone my editor and say 'Do you want an…

— Lynn Barber

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

— Lynn Barber

“I think people who try to run their marriages according to other people's expectations are insane. It is quite hard enough to keep a…

— Lynn Barber

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

— Lynn Barber

“If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be!”

— Lynn Barber

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to…

— Lynn Barber