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...congregations didn't applaud after his readings at others' memorial services. It was what Read, quoting John le Carré, calls Guinness's propensity to "back into the limelight." Far from the pottering, benevolent figure Guinness presents in his own books, Read reveals a frequently cruel, ambitious and selfish man striving to be better than his nature allowed. The book's very first line, which has Guinness admitting that "my mother was a whore ? when she gave birth she called the bastard Guinness but my father was probably the bloody cook," is a jolt. It is also the first flash...
...have earned driving his cab. Two cops who set him up have been sentenced to four and five years in jail, but Jing remains in debt and is still waiting for his car, seized during the arrest, to be returned. "The cops ruined me only because of their own selfish goals," he says...
...maintain a relationship a set of characters has to be lovable or irresistibly maddening. Coupling's six are just Friends' characters taken to obnoxious extremes. The three women are, respectively, bitchy, desperate and crazy, but what saves the show from misogyny is that the men, in turn, are selfish, preening and pathetic...
...That would be fantastic since I’m there a couple times per month. But it would be selfish,” he said...
Unfortunately, this first step towards reform is rather timid and was hampered by the selfish lobbying of France, Germany, Spain and Portugal (the countries that previously received the most net subsidies). Commodities such as beef, cereals (the single largest recipient of funds) and mutton will only partially decouple, while subsidies for olive oil, tobacco, cotton and sugar will still be determined solely on production...