Alexei Sayle Quotes
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
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I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
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I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.
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Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
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Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
