Jennifer Saunders Quotes

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

Jennifer Saunders

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

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I find it odd that people take me seriously.

Jeremy Paxman

PeopleMeFindSeriouslyTakeOdd

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

Meghan O'Rourke

LiveI AmInformationPerfectionist

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

Matt Taibbi

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I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.

Angelique Kerber

WeekReadyGoGo For ItNeedDays

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Amy Waldman

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I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

Luke Perry

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The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

Miranda Cosgrove

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I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

Lisa Loeb

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This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

WomenPeopleFeelPartyWantWhy

Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my dad would say, 'Come on, think about it.' He'd choose more involving films like 'Pulp Fiction,' and at the end of the night, we'd agree that they were great.

Christian Cooke

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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

Antonin Scalia

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