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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
"I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years."
"I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists' lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic 'Yes'. We've come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller ...."
"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
"Looking as sharp as Sweeney Todd's razor, Roger struck a formidable figure as he donned his smart clothes and tie. At times, he would often talk of the night of his career when he fought John Conteh. He took the defeat of that match very personally and would often punch out a drunk who scoffed at his midlands accent and his past pride and glory."
"When I got off him, I spat the blood that was swamping my mouth in to his face, I looked down at him and it really looked like he was dying- shit! The ambulance arrived in about a minute and they got an oxygen mask straight on him and I could see the life draining out of him. You see, this is the problem; we are only human and flesh and blood."
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"I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed."
"If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes."
"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."
"One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers."
"I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band."
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