Jilly Cooper Quotes
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.
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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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I always root for the defense.
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When I see dads being most effective with children, it is usually when they have an intuitive understanding that, for example, the car trip to and from the soccer game is potentially as important as the game itself.
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I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
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It is a question of personal appeal and conviction, rather than any argument. The cards I fancy are sympathy, understanding of his hopes, suspicions and disappointments, but above all, striving to convey to him, through what one says, a real echo of the sincerity that pervaded your doings in London.
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It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.
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I love the word 'faggot,' because it describes my kind of guy! You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are the backbone of the gay community. Without us, you're nothing! We have been there all through history guiding your sorry ass through the underground railroad! We went to the prom with you!
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.
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Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
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There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.
