B.S. Johnson Quotes
“When Jenny left me, betrayed me for a cripple whom she imagined to need her more, my mother said never mind, perhaps he would die and then I could have her back again.”
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
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The Rock will always come back to us.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.
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I turn left for a living.
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I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
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Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at you on even a slow-ish news day, but certain things just tend to stick out. Certain stories just seem to have an odd sort of electricity. It does get tricky when you're pitching an image that won't hit the newsstands for another week. Not only can other, bigger stories break in the mean time, but other daily cartoonists, can also come up with the same idea - this is the most depressing thing - and put it out there so yours looks old by the time it's published.
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“When Jenny left me, betrayed me for a cripple whom she imagined to need her more, my mother said never mind, perhaps he would die and then I could have her back again.”
