Every generation of children has its private hero.
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I've always been interested in art.
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The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
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I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
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My eyebrows could do with a trim.
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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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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
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Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
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About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?