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Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

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Julie Burchill
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 3
Journalist
Novelist
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Frenchay
Gloucestershire
Presley
Sounded
Loud
Lows
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Mansfield

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The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such
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Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.
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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.
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Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
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A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
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Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'
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Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species, let alone the same nationality? On one hand the selflessness and internationalism of the soldiers on the other the Whites-First isolationism of the protesters. Excuse me, who are the idealists here?
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Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
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'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.
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It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
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Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.
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Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.
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It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
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In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.
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It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.
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Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
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I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
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