Philip Kerr Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.
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Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.
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The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.
