Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
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You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.
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This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity
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I'm tired of being in love and being all aloneWhen you're so far away from me.I'm tired of making out on the telephoneBecause you're so far away from me.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
