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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last…
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives…
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its…
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
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Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
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It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
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London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh…
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But…
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which…
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I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday…
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There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her…
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform…
— Otis Blackwell
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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm…
— Leonard Maltin
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In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people…
— Elizabeth Berkley
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In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?'…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
— Carly Simon
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I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15.…
— Merry Clayton
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Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
— Mel Ferrer
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