Philip Kerr Quotes
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
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I have met with hundreds of young fashion designers, hundreds of fashion startups, hundreds of CEOs and business leaders. All I do is get to ask questions of professionals in the industry. I learn from every conversation. It is the best education I could have.
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Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.
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To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
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This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier.
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They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
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For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.
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Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
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When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.
