“My declining allure is a source of great sadness to me.”
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“My declining allure is a source of great sadness to me.”
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“The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.”
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“If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.”
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“Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.”
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“Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their upward trajectory!”
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“I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?”
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“There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.”
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“My trouser needs are simple: a narrow leg in a dark colour, with jean detailing.”
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“I don't go looking for new fads.”
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“To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.”
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“I'm dead fussy about food: I don't eat junk.”
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“The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do.”
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“There is a certain sentimental vibe in my home town of Manchester, which you would sort of expect.”
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“A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour.”
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“My look was based on the Madison Avenue guy who's just lost his job. Ivy League suit a bit scuzzed up, an outgrown layer cut and five o'clock shadow.”
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“The only casual item I own is a Levi's jacket.”
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“Maybe there are luckier people than me, but I don't know who that would be. I feel pretty lucky. I've had a nice life - I don't know how I could be luckier.”
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“Literally' - I'm not having it; people can't go around saying 'literally.' Otherwise, what's literal? There's not another word for literally: if it isn't figurative or metaphorical, what is...”
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“Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.”
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“I don't have secrets, my life's an open book.”
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