Ken Livingstone Quotes
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.
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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
