Alexei Sayle Quotes
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
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I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
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Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
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Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
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When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
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I'm an intellectual.
