“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
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“All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
“From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad' - so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
“I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
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