Beano Cook Quotes
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
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I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.
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I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.
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I try to be funny and not ignorant.
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
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Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
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There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.
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I'd say for us, obviously we have a long way to go. We're going to have to go home. We've got a lot of work to do.
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No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.
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I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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“The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.”
