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.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• 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!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• 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.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Mean
  • Information

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I believe in aging gracefully.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Aging

• 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.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Matter
  • Rich

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• 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.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Driving

• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Girl
  • Knows
  • Innocent

• I just don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Just
  • Watch
  • Lot

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

  

  Mary McCarthy
  • Work
  • Identity

• Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

  

  Douglas Davis

• I'm me: I'm a fun, easy-going guy that likes to work hard, who's very driven and determined.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.

  

  Chloe Pirrie
  • Character
  • Inspired

• In real life, I'm very different from Sarah Dunn. She's from the North. I grew up in the South. I wear big hoop earrings. I love me some makeup, and that's not her at all.

  

  Katy Mixon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

  

  Philip Kerr
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