No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
BEN ELTONThe appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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