"Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography."
-Arthur Smith
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"It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.“
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"Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'"
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"Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose."
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"I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school."
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"The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it."
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"At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them."
-Slobodan Milosevic
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"They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do."
-Sirhan Sirhan
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"I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal."
-Ashley Madekwe
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"People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are."
-Mae Whitman
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"Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous."
-Jennifer Grey
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"I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional."
-Jon Carroll
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