English - Critic | 1953 -
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
Tony Parsons
HateReadingPlacesAlwaysBahamas
I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.
SwimmingWorldBetterHandsomeLook
Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.
UglyYouGoLivingWillTattoos
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
LiveRegretWillNationTattooed
I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
TimePoliceThinkSaidBiggerWaste
If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.
SomeoneInsultWayHatredOutLike
I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.
WorkLoveHistoryI AmPeopleCity
I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.
AgeThinkAnythingMuchBefore
My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.
ParentsMeGenerationHouseBring
I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.
LiveGreatParentsThinkGeneration
It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.
NatureFatherMotherMeGivingBig
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
RelationshipChildYouFallEarly
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