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Well, they've got to go out there and just play with energy and commitment and intent, and that's something that was lacking last week. They were embarrassed last week against the Canberra Raiders, so I've got no doubt we'll see them play with a lot more energy and, you'd assume, a lot more intent. Whether that's good enough to win them the game, I don't know, but, you know, if the Bickelong gets any sort of room, they're as sharp as any team in the competition.
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My dad came from Wapping and my mum came from Poplar and Poplar was just slightly a cut above Wapping. He was either East End respectable or he was sort of East End villain, you know, and my family was respectable on both sides.
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I'm proud to be British, right? I'm proud of what I am, where I am, and I think if you want to put up something like a Union Jack outside the House of your English, you're entitled to it, you know? It's something you're proud of.
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Macbeth it was! Oh, it dawned my head in. I thought it was going to be dead boredom, but it wasn't. It was electric. Wasn't his wife a cow? And that fantastic bit where he meets Macduff and he thinks he's all invincible. I was on the edge of my seat at that bit because I knew I wanted to shout out and warn him and tell Macbeth.
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Women who come to hairdressers, they come in, and half an hour later, they want to work out a different person, you know? I mean, if you want to change, you've got to do it from the inside, haven't you? You know, like I'm trying to do.
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I'd like to stay and have a cup o' tea, but there wouldn't be time. I might as well have a look in the drawers as well. Oh, the lovely tablecloth and the handkerchiefs. I wouldn't take one for a farm. I'm poor, but our pa never took nothing, no, never, never.
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I don't know if you know Pooh Sticks. I think it's called Pooh Sticks because of Winnie the Pooh. Yeah, I think it was played in Winnie the Pooh, although I can't remember reading it in Winnie the Pooh. Anyway, it's called Pooh Sticks and it's a brilliant game. Um, well it was.
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Um, he came home from work early, and I thought he'd got what they call the twilight shift because it's normal practice, he'd go to work and sometimes he'd come home, and he said do you want the good news or the bad news, and I said, oh give us the good news, he said I'm not on the twilight, and I asked what's the bad news, he said I've been sacked.
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We chose Mance Rayder to lead us. He was a crow, same as you, but he wanted to be free. You could be free too. You don't need to live your whole life taking commands from old men. Wake up when you want to wake up. I could show you the streams to fish, the woods to hunt.
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I think one time I changed my grades because they were not that good. So we were in class and the nun comes and I see she has my report card in her hands and I face my destiny with a lot of courage. I stand up and I looked at her and then I peed my pants.
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I am 66 years old, and if we reverse these two numbers, it doesn't get any better. It's still 66. We have been working at this company for many years, so we asked for a raise. And our boss said, that's no problem, I have to write a check. He disappeared, and five minutes later, he comes back out of his office, here's your paycheck, goodbye. And I was out of a job.
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And we went away once a year, we went to a cottage with thatched roof, and we picked our own vegetables out of the garden, and chased chickens around, and it was fun. It was a fun childhood. It was more freedom, you know? It was none of this, like, children nowadays are like, parents are too attentive to them, you know? They feel like they've got to entertain them, and put them into this, and put them into that. And that's a lot of bull. You bring your kids up, you know? Walk softly, but carry a big stick.
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Before I ever got into investigating the criminal underworld in Dublin, if I said, okay, over the next 24 months, you are going to have shots fired into your house, be shot yourself, and be severely assaulted, and that your family are going to be threatened and intimidated, am I going to get into it? No, I would never have got into it. But having got into it, I cannot walk away from it, because it's a job that must be done, and I'm a journalist.
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Well, I think the Irish people had suffered so much from invasion and being taken over all down through the centuries that they fought so hard to have independence and to own the land and their houses. I think it is, more so than any other nationality in the world, the Irish would be the most property owners. Well, I mean, I can live here now because I have a car, and I can commute, and I can go into town, and I can, do you know what I mean? And I have, as my own children would say, I have the best of both worlds, right? I have the lovely countryside, do you know what I mean? Second to none.
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I remember to be drinking away back in 1953 and the publican sister passed out the door with a forecourt on her and I start to think there on the spot. I said there's a lady now I'm giving her all my money and here's the pub with all my money. She has a forecourt on her. I have nothing. I stopped drinking there on the spot. Then I went away looking for a forecourt. I got the wife but I couldn't find a forecourt. Forecourt evaded me. So I'm still without the forecourt but I got the wife and I got two children and I think I managed all right.
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Listen well, all of you. The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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You're just a mess of prejudices, aren't you? Yes, you am, are you? The fact is, you'll never, you can't be a first-rate writer or a first-rate human being until you've learned to have some small regard for human frie- Aren't the geraniums pretty, Professor?
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It's with Roberts and Nero, and so this guy that was his lawyer, he like, he may believe he was his friend and everything, but then like, he betrayed him, like he was like, he was ratting him out on anything he would do, but he wouldn't do anything wrong, it's just that like, he wanted to get him back in jail or whatever, you know?
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Oh, your hands are cold, baby. Can you use a little something warm on your shoulders and your hands? Do you have a warm blanket to throw on her? I hear you coughing at night. It's terrible, it's terrible. Does it hurt you when you're breathing heavy? No? When you go to the toilet, does it hurt you? You're dynamite then, you're all right, nothing is wrong, come on. Now move your IV bag so I can watch Steve Harvey on the television set.
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Well, my grandfather and grandmother, they were, and both their parents were, butchers I think in the meat markets there. My nanny used to say things like, handsome is as handsome does. My grandfather was always on about things like, black as nougat's knocker. And I don't know what it was he was referring to, nougat's knocker, I never could figure that one out. So, yeah, I learned a lot of those kinds of phrases without actually knowing what on earth they meant. But they were very fascinating nonetheless.
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And now I have to do, I have to keep him not to forget Russian. He came here when he was two and my mother-in-law, she tried him to teach English. I told her, no, he will take it for himself because he understands English words. But I tried to teach him Russian. I read him books, I sing Russian songs and I speak only Russian.
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It is well-known saying, Russian women are most beautiful in world. But you have saying, every family has its black sheep. So what? I am black sheep. But in Russia we also have saying, all cats are grey in dark. Especially with vodka. So, you are free tonight?
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Because of the isolation, there is very strong family ties. I have 12 brothers and sisters. Because of this huge family, then I really like to spend at least the summertime here in Iceland.
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In Sweden, we love the summer because for some part of the year it's very dark in Sweden and we celebrate midsummer. We make like this big giant pole with flowers and leaves and then we dance around this pole and for lunch we usually have herring and schnapps and beer.
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They used to put empty barrels outside here at the Edinburgh Distillery, but they had what you might call the dregs of the whisky inside them at the bottom. And the local lads used to get out these dregs and put them into a bottle. They used to cover the mouth of the bottle with their handkerchief and drink it through their handkerchief so that all the horrible bits were strained out of it.
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And Roger and Rosemary had a chameleon. Imagine that, it's just incredible. They morph, they change their colour and stuff like that. And I used to sit staring at this chameleon for hours and hours and hours trying to see it change in the colour of the wallpaper. And of course, it escaped. And I always kind of thought, I wonder what happened to that wee chameleon, maybe it met another kind of lizard. And they started a wee family and there's loads of kind of strange chameleon type creatures crawling about Glasgow suddenly.
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I do enjoy writing in dialect and I mostly write for bairns. I would view that what I write will maybe be read to them, the adults. I've written a bairns novel and a couple of bairns picture books. Quite often I do choose to add to dialect words that I would like to expose to bairns taste and maybe learn something new and increase in their dialect vocabulary.
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I love South Africa, let's start with that. It's a very different culture, with all the violence. I think the human condition is being so stripped from worth. So if you live in a violent, you grew up in a violent environment where there's no love, I mean what really can be the end product of that?
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Now if you want to talk about alligator, you see that little boy over there, he was raised an alligator, babe. Yeah, he had an alligator farm and they let him go all in the prayer because they was worth nothing. Yeah, he didn't get out of the farm.
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Well, I'm an avid deer hunter and turkey hunter. I killed two turkeys with one shot last year. Two big gobblers. Well, I called them up together, which is unusual for two big gobblers to come in together, but they did. And they started crisscrossing, you know, and I just got lucky. Got them lined up just right and busted them. They didn't even flop. Bless their hearts. They were just dumber than a sack of rocks, just thinking about that old turkey hen.
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Now, if you go up toward Ernestine Place up there, stop along there about where you turn up to Tony's there and then Pine Patch, right? Along with that log house, you'll probably see a boomer right there. You know what a boomer is, don't you? You ever see one? It's a mix between a gray squirrel and a chipmunk, except it's red.
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Mississippi and Oklahoma were the last two states to legalize whiskey. So a big industry in the state of Mississippi up until 1968 was moonshining, you know, white lightning. And of course, we did not do that sort of thing, but my dad was an alcoholic and he wasn't about to drink sweet tea instead. My daddy was a well-mannered man with genuine southern hospitality, but he'd get madder than a wet hen if he took away his whiskey.
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Well, we're talking about things that can only happen in Sweetwater, and one of them was, this guy, he was, I guess he was drunk or something. He ran over these cows, like about 15 of them, and he wrecked his car, like totally, it was a truck, it was a 4x4.
