"England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286"

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Source : 1989 A Natural Curiosity.

Margaret Drabble

#Country Quotes #Tired Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.”
“Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.”
“I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You tellin' me people don't look at Kanye West like the Glitch.”
“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.382, Simon and Schuster
“If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.”
“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.”
“Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.”

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