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 think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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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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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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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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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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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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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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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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I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.
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Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
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Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
