Alan Sillitoe Quotes
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
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Activism has been very productive in our society.
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You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
