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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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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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 was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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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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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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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.
