Philip Kerr Quotes
I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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There is only one me.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
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I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.
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These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.
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Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.
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At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, "I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids." But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.
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I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.
