"I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started."

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Source : "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

Gary Numan

#Crush Quotes #Mother Quotes #Dad Quotes

“Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.”
“Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.”
“I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?”
“If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.”
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
“Thou art relieved of thy duties!”
“You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.”
“I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.”

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