Jilly Cooper Quotes
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
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I remember everyone in my nursery school class getting a carton of milk before the day started. Only, I got mine about 20 minutes later than everyone else because it had to be kept on the radiator for a short while. I liked warm milk when I was small.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.
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I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
