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" The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care! "
Tom Stoppard
Care
Now
Matter
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" The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. "
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" In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers. "
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" I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them. "
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" I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. "
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" A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. "
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" I'm good at being funny. "
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" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "
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" I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. "
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" When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example. "
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" If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. "
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" My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. "
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" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "
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I See
Name
" I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. "
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Them
Beatles
" I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. "
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Sometimes
Myself
" I always loved rock 'n' roll. "
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Rock N Roll
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" From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. "
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Facts
Certainty
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Number
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" I don't do interviews under false pretenses. "
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Pretenses
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