Gene Green Quotes
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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I hate big models.
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I said to the bankers, 'Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us.'
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien.
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I'm not a green like most Democrats would be. I have a blue-collar district.
