164 Quotes by Julie Burchill

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    Being a monarchist, and fawning over those ‘above’ you, you must naturally despise those ‘below’ or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

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    I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that’s the part that votes Labour.

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    One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me – that of going up to town and doing a show.

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    It was the flashing lights, and the noise of the machines, and the loud, loud music, all seeming to refract and contract around her, her eyes widening, her hair swooshing, her slow smile shining. She seemed an actual part of the place – all fun, all joy, all shimmery skittering energy.

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    The Feminist Me says that a woman’s right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

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    May I just single out for salutations, on the ‘anti-war’ side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.

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    Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked – blowsy and loud and low.

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    I don’t have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

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