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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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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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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But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
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[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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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.
