"I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not."

-- Jonathan Coe

#Light Quotes #Worry Quotes #Might Quotes

“For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers...”
“I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff... Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].”

Source : "Georgia Peach" by Katrina Lobley, www.smh.com.au. May 27, 2005.
“Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.”
“I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.”
“What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.”

Source : "Astaire, the biography". Book by Tim Satchell, 1987.
“Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.”
“The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing.”
“Iâ€™m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire”

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