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- One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life…
- I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up…
- The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version…
- My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one…
- We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are…
- I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.
- It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable…
- We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
- Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
- You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were…
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