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I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.


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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.



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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.



In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.



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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.



My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.



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Vice is its own reward.



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