Keith Richards Quotes
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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Maybe all obligate carnivores are essentially the same. Can I eat that? Is it going to eat me? Is it a toy?
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
