“I'd stand in front of the mirror and talk to myself until I fell asleep, you know. I'd interview myself as women with problems, you know, like, women in documentaries who had three kids and chainsmoked and husbands in prison that hit them! I'd be in the mirror going, [lowers voice] yeah well, you know, it's not easy since Derrin went into prison. My eyes aren't black anymore, but the twins, Tilly and Wayne, you know, they don't stop crying. SHUT UP TILLY SHUT UP TILLY!”

— Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed (2005)

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English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwrite… 1959

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I'm trying to wean myself off sports, it's too time consuming. I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit to God, and the losers blame themselves. You know, just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.”

Jeff Stilson American comedian

Comedy Central Presents Jeff Stilson (2003)

“Talk about your life
I'd like to know
It's not easy going
Where no-one goes
And no-one knows…”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)

“You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, “How quaint!”; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third act, you wish you hadn’t come. And Tillie, may I mention in passing, has four acts. p. 64”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 2: 1919

“If someone said three years from now
You'd be long gone,
I'd stand up and punch them up,
Cause they're all wrong.
I know better,
'Cause you said forever,
And ever.
Who knew.”

Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter

Who Knew, written by Pink, Max Martin and Lukasz Gottwald
Song lyrics, I'm Not Dead (2006)

“But you know, my mom having to go to the hospital seven times… like passed out because of pain… I wouldn't come home and sit with my family and be with my dad - I'd call someone up and… I'd go and get obliterated drunk and I'd go, like, on two-week benders.”

Jack Osbourne (1985) Son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne

MTV.com Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery

“And then I'd get it and think, well geez, Poland's just up the road a piece and… you know the rest.”

Jon Stewart book Naked Pictures of Famous People

Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)
Context: Hitler: Denial is a powerful thing... I always thought I could stop any time I wanted. "If I could just get Czechoslovakia, that'll be the end of it. I'll be happy then." And then I'd get it and think, well geez, Poland's just up the road a piece and... you know the rest.

“Yeah, well, there's a mirror in the toilet if you want to go in there and talk to them.”

Brian Cowen (1960) Irish politician

Brian Cowen responding to Martin McGuinness stating "We'll have to consult the [IRA] army council on this" to certain proposals made during the peace talks concerning Northern Ireland.
McCarthy, Justine, Cowen: The Anointed One, Sunday Tribune, 28 October 2007, 2008-05-07 http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2007/oct/28/cowen-the-anointed-one/,
2007

“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

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