Harold MacMillan Quotes
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
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Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
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It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
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I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.
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Sometimes I feel edgy, sometimes I feel like I want to wear a bright, bold beautiful color.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
