Philip Kerr Quotes
As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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People take things so seriously.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.
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'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'
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As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.
