"By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded."
"It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process."
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Source: Russell Brand: This charming man by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.
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