#lit

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs. ↗

— John le Carre

#british press #depths #go #go to hell #hell

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#away #called #could #find #grass

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#american #american politics #ideas #politics #principles

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. ↗

— David Byrne

#doing #extent #feel #happily #i

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. ↗

— David Byrne

#could #i #i can #imagining #practicality

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. ↗

— David Byrne

#bike #bit #brooklyn #get #i

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. ↗

— David Byrne

#bedrooms #cassette #deck #go #home

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#always #citizen #government #i #party

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#disaster #happening #i #i think #interested

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#apart #around #because #cheap #could