"Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador."

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Source : "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

Sue Townsend

#Hate Quotes #People Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.”
“Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.”
“Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do.”
“The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They donâ€™t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”
“Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.”
“Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.”
“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife”, p.60

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