Jane Birkin Quotes
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
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When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
