Wendy Cope Quotes
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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I was on a plane, and the steward was coming down the aisle. 'Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...' And he gets to me and he's like, '...chicken salad!' What does he think I'm gonna do? 'Dis is not de salad of my people! In my homeland, dey use mandarin orange slices...and crispy wonton crunches!'
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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
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I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.
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I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.
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If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
