Jim Kerr
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Like Celtic hitting the back of the net in the 90th minute of a Champions League football match.
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An umbilical cord.
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Noel Clarke
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Like hugging your children first thing in the morning and kissing them goodnight.
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There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
Paul McKenna
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The most intensive and beautiful golden sunlight. It’s the strongest force in the universe.
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I fell asleep in a room that had an oil heater and it filled with carbon monoxide and, if it hadn’t been for my husband, Terry, I would have died.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
Fizzy like lemonade.
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
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