Eric Bristow Quotes
All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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For me, I can't see Liverpool without him because he's just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He's always been on the team every time I've watched Liverpool. It's going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
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The best of all good friends is pride.
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There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.
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My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
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All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.
