the little roly-poly Russian-born rebel of the canvas.
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Description of Vladimir Tretchikoff from her interview with Tretchikoff published in the Just Jani column of the Sunday Times, republished in Face Value by Jani Allan.Jani Allan
Relax, you're among friends now. The long hard day is over and the roly-poly funny man is before you.
Craig Ferguson
"He had a roly poly physique but a wonderful left foot and he was a brilliant finisher. I would put Puskas in any list of all time greats". (Preston and England legend Sir Tom Finney)
Ferenc Puskas
Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress.
Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess.
Rebel Rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so!David Bowie
I was born a rebel
Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning.
Yeah, with one foot in the grave,
And one foot on the pedal.
I was born a rebel.Tom Petty
The political barbarism of the century made him an exile, a wanderer, a Hotelmensch, not only from his Russian homeland but from the matchless Russian tongue in which his genius would have found its unforced idiom... But I have no hesitation in arguing that this poly-linguistic matrix is the determining fact of Nabokov's life and art. But whereas so many other language exiles clung desperately to the artifice of their native tongue or fell silent, Nabokov moved into successive languages like a travelling potentate...
Vladimir Nabokov
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