Wendy Cope Quotes
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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Awards are for young people. They just are.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
