“She behaves with all the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa constrictor”

— Tony Banks

Tony Banks close to death after stroke, The Independent (online edition), Sophie Goodchild, 2006-01-08 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article337229.ece, http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1682818,00.html
on former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

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