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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

- Christian Slater

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn`t argue about that, I`m right and will be proved right. We`re (the Beatles) more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It`s them twisting it that ruins it for me. I don`t know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. (to London`s Evening Standard, 1966)

- John Lennon

They`re probably going about two-to-one over the treadmills right now. Less stress on the joints. And most of them have the upper-body movement, too. You`re constantly twisting the waistline, which can`t hurt.

- Ron Miller

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it`s an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

- Ang Lee
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If you ask for something for free and you don`t have that relationship with the person first, it`s more like full-out arm wrestling than arm twisting.

- Mark Anderson

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

- Robert Frank

We did a lot of arm-twisting and cajoling.

- Annette Geddes

We did a lot of arm-twisting and cajoling. She doesn`t do many recitals, and most of her work is in Europe, and I got the distinct impression that she isn`t the kind to go from city to city, doing a concert each night.

- Annette Geddes