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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Everybody's entitled to their own experience.
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In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.
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I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.
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I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
