Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill. Julie Burchill More Quotes by Julie Burchill More Quotes From Julie Burchill I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. Julie Burchill moral real people Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express. Julie Burchill lack-of-love would-be country There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. Julie Burchill smart girl war As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. Julie Burchill middle towns age I feel even less patience with transsexuals. Julie Burchill transsexuals feels Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP. Julie Burchill possibility boring relationship Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. Julie Burchill ageing insecure careers When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? Julie Burchill inmates ottomans looks When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport. Julie Burchill relax sports men When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome. Julie Burchill iraq ignorance home I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful. Julie Burchill easter hurt beautiful It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it. Julie Burchill fantasy acting world Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. Julie Burchill growing hollywood suicide Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule. Julie Burchill exception-to-the-rule husband parent Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. Julie Burchill gluttony joy two Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.' Julie Burchill clothes sunday ideas I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down. Julie Burchill mixtures summer hands I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago. Julie Burchill long-ago fool men Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off. Julie Burchill stripping covering behaviour People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. Julie Burchill denial self people
