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Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well. Graham Coxon

Music Sometimes Pride Own Think Dig Other Bit London Well Sort Get Manchester Mean Really Each

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference. Graham Coxon

Me Wave Tell Kind Able Part Almost New Like Mission Always Were Difference Being Arty Burma British

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play. Graham Coxon

Music Clothes Going Influence Play

It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity. Graham Coxon

Me People Insecurity Group Think Other Bit Total Some Allegiance Weird Loose Got Really Showing Groups

It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time. Graham Coxon

Time Together Communicate Long Seen Long Time Nice Other Meeting Through Because Lot Up Quite Quite A Long Time Much Really Each

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. Graham Coxon

Remember Think London Pretty Similar More Welsh Leeds Irish Than Bands American Manchester Anytime Whether English Now

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live. Graham Coxon

Live Back Idea Got Just Cool Shows Live Shows Enjoying

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that. Graham Coxon

Fussy Must Ginger Singer Get Being Lemon Now

In the cold and snow-rich Silesian winters, there were hour-long rides on Sundays in horse-drawn sleighs to my maternal grandparent's farm to have lunch and to spend the afternoon. The house was a magnificent 18th-century manor house in the nearby Altgabel with a great hall that was decorated with hunting trophies. Gunter Blobel

Great Farm Lunch Cold Spend Sundays Hunting Magnificent Trophies Winters House Hall Maternal Were Afternoon Decorated Grandparent Rides Nearby

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography. Gunter Blobel

Has-Been Atomic Structure Revealed Been Cellular Many Using Level

Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many palaces, happily decorated with cherubs and other symbols of the baroque era. The city made an indelible impression on me. Gunter Blobel

Me Remember Made Other Indelible City Through Driving Still Era Impression Happily Decorated Baroque Many Palaces Symbols

Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it. Gunter Blobel

Training Problems Medicine Completed More Small Various Hospitals Although Practicing Continuing Years Than Decided Against Much Fascinated Medical Two

As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this. Gunter Blobel

Me People Destruction Old Made Big Before Group Restore Had Part Nobel Soon Were Heard Impression Friends Germany Child Wanted Help Who Even Started

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. Gunter Grass

Future Statistics Overpopulation Pollution Place Growth

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. Gunter Grass

Myself Rightfully Out Membership Exactly Only Points He Volunteer Catch Well Course Judging Idiotic Boy Up Child Ended Just Wanted Which Then Who Drafted

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. Gunter Grass

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage. Gunter Grass

Me Words Argument Country Think Out Citizens Phrase Hurtful Point Part Abuse Like Dead Becomes How Heard Referred Stop Common Usage Used Who Fill

My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. Gunter Grass

Noise Sister Own Living Other Corner Our Books Ourselves Windows Had Beyond Read Learned Were Very Did Often Where Place Little Room Rooms Even Amidst Thing Things Living Room Early Kept Two Imagine Needed Watercolors

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. Gunter Grass

Life Class Cause Mind Become Earner State Melancholy Finds Exception Individual Mass Wage Governed Privilege Wherever Production Phenomenon

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. Gunter Grass

Books Bad Sacred Therefore Even

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more. Gunter Grass

Myself Sometimes Face Met Skin Other Wounded Wounding More Feel Since Always Least Question Campaigns Germany Any Grew Decided Should Ignore Grow Thick Thick Skin Things

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. Gunter Grass

Truth You Business Hurt Truth Is Lies Boring Oneself Along Protect Mostly Another Very Person Different Which Help Harm

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music. Gunter Grass

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting. Gunter Grass

You Together Memory Sometimes Remember Try Shifting Everybody Fragments Join Soon Knows How Fallible Precisely Story Certain

Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany. Gunter Grass

People Strong Older Other Besides Horror Self-Determination Because Auschwitz Germany Against Urges Speaks Even United Right Enjoyed

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