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“You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it”
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“I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me in her prawn cocktail, the pretty girl will rub me on her bristols as she suns herself on a beach in the Caribbean.”
Source : Oliver Reed (1979). “Reed all about me: the autobiography of Oliver Reed”, W.H. Allen
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“There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland”
Source : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003. 
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“I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.”
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“I don't believe in low-fat cooking.”
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“In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.”
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“I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.”
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“I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.”
