Linda McCartney Quotes

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Linda McCartney

Profession : Photographer

Birth : September 24, 1941

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

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But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

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I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

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I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

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I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like.

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When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.

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He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

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I spend a lot of time in our kitchen. I find it the cosiest, friendliest place in the house. It's not something my American upbringing prepared me for, but now that I live in England, it's become very important to me.

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My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

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I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.

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We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

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I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

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He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.

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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.

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Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

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I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

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We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

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We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

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We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.

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We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.

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