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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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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There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.
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Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
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My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.
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Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.
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For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
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You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
