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Simon Hoggart Quotes

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: May 26, 1946

Topics

Daily You Mail Lead British Middle

I only wear two rings: a wedding ring and my World Series ring.

World Wedding Ring Two Rings Wear

There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.

Fear History Government American

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

Fear Remember Poverty Nervous Kind

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Easy Bed Hard Out Soft Get

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Music Theatre Feel Way Passionate

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

Habit Procrastination Worst Out Many

Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.

Politics People Win World You Back

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Truth History Job American Loss

All we're doing is going back to what we were: a moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world and to all traditions and people.

Mohammad bin Salman

People World Doing Back Islam Open

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Mother Death Looking Forward Forward

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Women Teacher Cute School Me Run

If you make a movie that's close to your heart, it will be close to other people's.

Derek Cianfrance

Heart People You Will Close Your

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