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 like kind of natural, woodsy earth tones. I like patchouli. I like tobacco. I like sandalwood. I like tree resin. I'm not a huge fan of citrus - I like things that are kind of moodier and... more deeper base notes.
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There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!
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When you have the most stable team in the garage from a financial standpoint and manufacturer standpoint, that attracts good people.
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Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
