British - Journalist | July 3, 1959 -
I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.
Julie Burchill
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Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
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But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.
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The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
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I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
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Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
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It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
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I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.
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I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.
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People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.
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