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Bastards with a conscience.
"Bastards with a conscience," he says.
She has returned to Paris for "Bastards," with a story that has the tragic undertow of a classic Greek tragedy and the topicality of a headline in Le Monde.
So that makes them greedy bastards with a heavily skewed idea toward self-importance of their own preciousness, right?
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If he himself were to die, "at least I would die like a real man not like some bastard with a bowed head".
Looking back at my younger self, I see an arrogant bastard with a lot of attitude who couldn't wait to grow up.
By episode two, Didrich is a fully blown bastard with a bottle permanently in one hand and a whip in the other, lest an unlucky peasant or gypsy should pass by at the wrong moment.
To refresh you, Galliano's barrage of abuse at a couple in a Parisian bar included "your dirty Jewish face", "people like you would be dead today – your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed" and "fucking Asian bastard", with a gratuitous "I love Hitler" thrown in, just in case we hadn't got the message.
He can work an audience, flirt with it, play the randy, suave bastard with a gin-and-tonic in one hand and a microphone in the other, but half-an-hour later you'll bump into him and he'll be walking around, locked hand-in-hand with his girlfriend, and looking every inch the little boy who's still up long past his bedtime.
We didn't want some grumpy immortal bastard with a chip on his shoulder".
If you're somehow a lucky bastard with a bathroom in your dorm, or shared by a few friends in a communal living space, Poo Pourri is pretty nice, and makes your shit smell like lemon drops.
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