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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You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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There is nothing to do but keep on.
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I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.
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My first instrument was a little blue ukele.
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I'm not a green like most Democrats would be. I have a blue-collar district.
