Lynne Truss Quotes
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
Lynne Truss
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
Nancy Willard
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
Ian Hislop
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
Garrett Clayton
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
T. Boone Pickens
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
Harold H. Greene
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
Adam Green
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
Lana Turner
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We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
Baba Kalyani
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
Wally Schirra
