Wendy Cope Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.
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Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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I've never been a great one for technology.
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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
