Alan Sillitoe Quotes
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
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I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.
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You know, all kinds of people inspire me.
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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
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If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
