"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin"

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Charlotte Rampling

#Book Quotes #Skins Quotes #Film Quotes

“We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.”
“Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1950). “Rude Assignment: A Narrative of My Career Up-to-date”
“I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.”
“During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.”

Source : "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.
“There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.”
“Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.”

Source : "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2007.
“Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.”
“There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.”

Source : "Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot poetry prize" by Alice Oswald, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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