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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Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
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It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.
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I'm not a green like most Democrats would be. I have a blue-collar district.
