John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.
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They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
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I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.
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It's very difficult to make a 100% turnaround. It's tough when you actually do exhibit patterns of bad behavior. You need to have a very strong support system of people who are willing to keep you in your place if you're going to overcome these things.
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The hand has the richest articulation of space.
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Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
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I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.
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I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
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I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.
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Being at a club that supported me meant a lot.
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I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.
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If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.
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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
