Norman Quentin Cook (Fatboy Slim) Quotes
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Tech never comes back the same.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
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There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.
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Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gallon, and Katrina, and whenever we're at war, that person sitting in the White House gets the brunt of the accusations.
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?
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People are both more willing and less willing to talk to you when you're a writer.
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I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.
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I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
