"This is Manchester, we do things differently here"

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Source : "No strings attached: why the trend for classical 'raves' needs to end" by John Thorp, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2016.

Tony Wilson

“When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.”
“If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.”
“Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.”
“We need to push the reset button on climate change.”

Source : "Does Obama’s UN carbon pledge threaten much more US economic pain?" by George Russell, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2015.
“I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.”

Source : "Brooklyn Decker's Model-to-Actress Career Challenge" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 10, 2011.
“The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.”
“Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.”
“In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.”

Source : Iain Pears (1999). “An Instance of the Fingerpost”, Berkley Publishing Group

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