Philip Kerr Quotes
My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.
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I fill my business emails with smiley faces and question marks so that I don't sound too severe.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I'm not a religious freak, but I do believe that there is a higher power.
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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
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My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
