#body

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' ↗

— Paul McCartney

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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#effort #him #honorable #jesus #john

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#defined #fear #guys #here #i

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. ↗

— John McGahern

#away #back #books #boy #bring

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. ↗

— John McGahern

#attitude #compared #did #i #killing

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#blind #boy #died #else #everybody

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#else #guitar #had #hell #i

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#am #body #certain #healing #i

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. ↗

— Roger McGough

#anyone #doing #poetry #really #show

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

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