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...there catting around and not every woman is in it for her own self-interest. But I think about my own life, and I think we can all think about our lives in this sense, and some elements of the argument seem to apply. In my case, so many misunderstood one-night stands can be explained in these terms...
Pushing the boundaries of the fact limitation, I asked him why he made the documentary. He replied that he had said no four times but that the filmmakers misunderstood him the last time. When I pushed the question of why he would let the filmmakers follow him around, letting them use everything except one would-be kick-ass breakfast scene in which he chokes on yogurt, he said, "It's not an imperative, it's an experience. Experience cannot be avoided...
...begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it ... Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." But it is not for the crime of ignoring such advice that the Palace and its advisers stand indicted; it is because they have so fundamentally misunderstood the nature of modern British society, where celebrities are knocked down as fast as they are built up. I'm not surprised. Seventeen years ago, the Prince of Wales came to the Bagehotian establishment at which I then worked for a lunch with "people his own age." Most of the conversation...
...Indonesians are leery of giving police too much power. "The Indonesians have been slow to arrest people," Wolfowitz acknowledges. "You get into difficult judgments - we would say that the evidence is there and that they're simply too concerned about the possibility, which is real, that it will be misunderstood by their public as simply a cracking down on people for their religious beliefs, which happen to be the beliefs of a great majority...
...inability to draw or paint concerns me, as I am often misunderstood in both the written and visual media. Particularly, I feel that I may have a better chance on dates if I learned to work with oils on canvas. Verbal debacles could be avoided and she, at the very least, would leave with a souvenir of the evening...