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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

Along Go I Think Just
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

About Book Comfortable Days
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

Books Don Everything Five
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Fear Fill Filled Hates
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
Among Any Compromise Contact
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Knowledge Makes Materials Mind
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Enter Men Preservation Property
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When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

Ask Books Couple Done
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

Buy Came Challenge Did
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

Any Been Big Day
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
Everything Got No Reason Reason
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

Anything Awards Get Many
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I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Busy Corner Go Mean
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

About Annoyed Each Get
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

Future Just Just Do It Know
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Remember Days Not bricks Bricks.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

About Brainy Cause Day
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I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

About Bad Bad People Before
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society

Human Imagination Conceive Possibility
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.

Away Challenged Change Just
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.

Argument Away Because Girlfriend
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Product Scientific Imagination Vision
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
About Big Big Questions Life
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

Always Changing Evolution Growing
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

Alone Chickens Duck Ducks
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

Good Good Parent Honest Parent
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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Disorder Stress Fanatic Prominent
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Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
Bit Gone Pirates Quiet
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

Famous Is Know Really
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For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

About Good Holiday Me
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Because Better Dream Expectations
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Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

About Create Exhaust Fascinating
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
About Argument Desperate Feel
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It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Ahead Hit Levels Life
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Curious Quotient Excited Intelligence
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Always Any Art Because
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Everything Expecting Get Give
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Desperate Jauntiness Orchestra Fiddling
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The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another

Mistake Europe Quarrel Drop bomb
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Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

Back Cause Circus Got
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One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later

Demonstrated To art Emotion Future
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

Ask Dream Go Never
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When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

America Born Freak Front
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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
Education Last hope Liberal Period.
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Anybody Anyone Driving Ever
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People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Care Desperate Don't Care People
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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
Ignition Drive Point Journey
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...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

Fail Luck Dream Still
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
Problem Take Drum.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Future Immediate Only Past
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