"Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else."

-- A. A. Gill

#Dirty Quotes #Arrogant Quotes #Television Quotes

“The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.”
“As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.”

Source : "Peter David Interview". Jamie Coville blog, jamiecoville.com. January 2000.
“If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.”
“Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.”
“It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.”
“Kids have awkward moments.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 22, 2004.
“I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.”

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