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Jane Birkin

"There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around, so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it-and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine-from anywhere in the world. I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's."

Source : "Jane Birkin's Birkin Sells For $163,000!" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. April 20, 2011.

Jane Birkin

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“...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.”
“What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.”

Source : "Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups" Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
“I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.”
“I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.”
“I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.”
“The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.”
“Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.”

Source : 1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.
“I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.”

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