Hamish Bowles Quotes

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Hamish Bowles

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There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

Jeremy Stoppelman

TechnologyTraditionRiseStopNew

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

FamilyLoveChildrenValentine's Day

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Andrew Motion

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Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.

Andy Taylor

YouGoKnowDrinkDaysEnglish

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

Michael Fassbender

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I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Amy Winehouse

DepressionPeopleYouKnowSuffer

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Stanislav Grof

DeathConnectionImportantHuman

I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.

Mike Posner

BusyBeenBoyfriendAlbumKeeping

Sometimes less is better with government.

Lois Frankel

GovernmentBetterSometimesLess

We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.

Jose Angel Gurria

TryingFossil FuelsSchizophrenic

In Peru, awareness of fake currency is so high that retail shops regularly provide cashiers with hole punchers. When a fake bill is received, the cashier quickly pops out a few holes before curtly returning the bill to an oft-surprised client.

Jonathan Franklin

FakeReturningAwarenessOutHigh

Everyone is going to be skeptical if they don't know what is happening.

Bozoma Saint John

KnowEveryoneGoingHappening

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