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Sport

WALKERBALLS - hilarious quotes from ITV's Formula 1 commentator Murray "Motormouth" Walker.

KEEGANBALLS - weird and wacky quotes from the ex-England football coach.

ATKINSONBALLS - the sayings of ex-Manchester United boss turned TV soccer pundit, "Mr Bojangles" himself - "Big" Ron Atkinson.

Music

Link>>>music365.com - Quotes of the Year 2000

 

Television
FAMILY FORTUNES - we asked a hundred people..our survey said...
Films
Royalty

QM@100 - the Queen Mother's celebrated her 100th birthday on 4 August 2000. The wit and wisdom of the Queen Mother.

queen mother

 

Politics

BAFFLING BUSHISMS - President George "Dubya" Bush has already left an indelible mark on the English language.

big dubya

 

Crime and Punishment
Love and Marriage
Other
TENANTBALLS - extracts from actual letters sent to various county councils and housing associations throughout the UK from disgruntled tenants.
News in Numbers
THE NEWS IN NUMBERS - the numbers which have been making the headlines.

 

Classic Quotes
Love

Sex

Other

"QUOTE UNQUOTE"

Who has been making the news in 2000-2001

Pithy quotes from the world of entertainment, sport and the man in the street

 

Films

'Do Not Kiss'

Sign put on movie star Brad Pitt's waxwork model by officials at Madame Tussaud's in New York, USA.

March 2001


"I think Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness."

alicia silverstone

Actress Alicia Silverstone (pictured above), star of the film Clueless. Winning a Campaign For Plain English award for talking complete bo**ocks

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"Acting is like jumping from a cliff without a parachute."

Icelandic singer Bjork, in Premier magazine, finding her movie debut in Dancer In The Dark hard going.

October 2000


"I can fart and eat ice cream in bed."

Actor Brad Pitt on the advantages of being married to Friends actress Jennifer Aniston.

August 2000


"She would have me dressed up like a poof if she could."

madonna

Film director Guy Richie, on his fashion conscious lover, Madonna (pictured).

August 2000


"Taking one's clothes off on stage is unseemly."

joan collins

Actress Joan Collins on why she recently turned down the part of Mrs Robinson in the stage play of The Graduate, before Jerry Hall got the job.

July 2000


"If I get lucky I'll die before I go broke."

walter matthau

Lifelong gambler, actor Walter Matthau, who died on 1 July 2000, aged 79.

July 2000


"No one involved seems to have noticed that the leading characters are horrible people for whom it is impossible to feel a shred of sympathy, even if we were to believe in their existence."

all saints

Daily Mail film critic, Christopher Tookey, on the All Saints movie Honest, which took just £111,309 on its opening weekend in British cinemas.

June 2000


Butler in Dudley Moore film dies

sir john gielgud

Headline in Daily Sport on death of possibly Britain's finest actor, Sir John Gielgud.

May 2000


"It's just like Notting Hill."

hugh grant

Actor, Hugh Grant to the assembled world media camped outside his front door, on how life imitates art, following his break-up with actress, Liz Hurley.

May 2000

 

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