Colin Bateman Quotes
“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.”
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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It's like, you hungry, you reached your level. We asked ten years ago. We was asking with the Panthers. We was asking with them, the Civil Rights Movement. We was asking. Those people that asked are dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're gonna do? Ask?
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To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
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We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
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Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.
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There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.
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I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
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I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.
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Never take what's offered, always ask for more.
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People always ask about the transition from TV show to a movie, but it felt like just going to a different school. You don't really notice the transition, when you're in the moment.
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Were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: “Yes, of course.” Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself.
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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
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For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
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I've been lucky to always have a healthy relationship with food. I also love to be consistent with meditation and make sure that I am supplying my body, mind, and soul with everything it needs to function.
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“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.”
