"I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have."

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Source : "Man with no name". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2000.

Joe Klein

#Understanding Quotes #Favour Quotes #Flaws Quotes

“We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.”

Source : STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”
“American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.”
“My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.”
“I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.”
“I can't grow a moustache.”
“George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.”

Source : "It's A Mod, Mod Underworld" by Victoria Barret, www.forbes.com. December 12, 2005.
“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.”
“On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.”

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