Philip Kerr Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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The Afghan people do not take kindly to conquerors.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
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I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.
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One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
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I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
