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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. Kate Adie

Good Silence Democracy Better Secrecy Never Information Works

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. Kate Adie

You Struggle Censorship Military Press Fact Along Like Without Go Were Covering Reporters Any Situations In Fact Legitimate Right British

I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet. Kate Bush

You Meet Megalomaniac Likely Ever

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do. Kate Bush

Girl Think Everything Easy About Because Still Much Happy-Go-Lucky Used

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly. Kate Williams

Trials Thought Devil Skin Unnatural Colour Most Witch Particularly Redheads Were Deathly Persecuted Which Centuries Fifteenth European Pale Associated

Love should be all about giving and trusting. Katrina Kaif

Love Giving About Trusting Should

I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today. Katrina Kaif

Today You Respect Grateful Believe Everything Ingratitude Now Reject

You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant. Katrina Kaif

You Otherwise Person Same Stagnant Grow

I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the people I love. For me, it's never been about going out to meet guys or to show off my latest dress - it's the music. Katy B

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. Kenneth Williams

Writing Coward Collected Tried Records Envied Emulate His Whose Technique

I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target. Kenneth Williams

Myself Mosquito See Target Choosing

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. Kevin McCloud

Thinking Look Without Buildings Historical Modern Cannot

Life involves other people and it is a compromise. Kevin McCloud

Life People Other Compromise Involves

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. Lawrence Durrell

History Living Way Wrong Wrong Way Repetition Endless

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. Lawrence Durrell

You Difficult Correctly Know Very Trying Die

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. Lawrence Durrell

Life Art Daily People Try Imagination Way Destiny Wounded Compromise Potential Through True Joyous True Potential Waits Artists Ordinary Ordinary People Us Fulfil Daily Life Defeated

Thailand was never a European colony, so even though the city is very Western on the surface, deep down it's very Asian. It's quite enigmatic, and I like that. I can't get to the bottom of Bangkok, and I never will. Lawrence Osborne

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it. Lee Child

People Writing See How Shy Shy People

I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that. Lee Ryan

Respect People Treat Be Kind Try Kind Proud Them

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness. Len Goodman

Kindness Think Softness Bit Am Yes Little Little Bit Actually

I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair. Leona Lewis

Mind Hair Spiders Covered Tiny Legs Much Suffer Thick

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