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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
Author
Broadcaster
Literary Critic
Poet
Television Presenter
Writer
Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Hair
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Mcenroe
Broccoli
Badly
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I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
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I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.
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The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.
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The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.
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A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
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If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.
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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
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I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.
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The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
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