Roger Lewis
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"Roger Lewis" is a Wales/Welsh academic, biographer and journalist. He has written a biography of Anthony Burgess, which prolific author and essayist Tim Conley described thusly: "Lewis at work here is like nothing so much as an adolescent publicly masturbating on the exhumed corpse of his father, and thinking this performance the acme of wit."

Lewis was raised in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, where he was educated at Bassaleg School. He then attended the University of St Andrews (MA) before studying further at Magdalen College, Oxford (Master of Letters/MLitt). He became a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1984.

Lewis has also published books on Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and the Carry On films/Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey (film actor)/Charles Hawtrey (Charles Hawtrey: the man who was Private Widdle, 2001).

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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

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With a passive tag, the transmissions are limited as the only signal comes from a transmitter/receiver and tend to be spasmodic.

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It's more than a studio; it's a mixture of food and culture, among other things. It's the perfect way for us to establish working relationships with Jamaica, especially the younger generation and keep the continuity of the music.

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We are always on the road. That's what we do.

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Orson Welles, of 'War of the Worlds' fame is long dead, but his spirit lives on. I hope that the shock and outrage generated by Matt Christians' stunt don't stifle his flair for creating ways and means to pierce the ennui of his jaded eighth-grade students.

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The music that we play makes your body move in strange ways that it has never moved before.

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Hurricane Katrina may have silenced my hometown for now. But if we all work together through efforts like those at this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival, we can restore New Orleans and the music scene that made it so great, and reduce the suffering of other victims of this disaster.

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