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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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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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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A gentleman reading a poem that began withWhere is that man that never yet did hear Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen?Jonson calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering 'No,' demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.
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People are funny in the way that they choose to express themselves.
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I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.
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The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
