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Janet Street-Porter Quotes

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

Janet Street-Porter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 27, 1946

Topics

Good Women Romantic Sleep Shopping

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Change Culture Baseball Society Role

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Nature Man War Control Feet Chains

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

Jeremy Clarkson

Haircut Look Never Things Aspire

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

Man Me Back Down Cave Savage

To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.

Book Honest Joyful Relief Quite

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Children You Google Dimensions Kids

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

Music You Touch More Gut Modern

Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.

Romesh Gunesekera

Future Live Past Face Understanding

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

Mike Singletary

Family Cold Strong End You Look

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Music People Talking You Powerful

We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

Women Time Black Long Long Time

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

Age Dinner You Go Young Kind

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