Philip Kerr Quotes
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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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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?
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I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
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Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
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It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.
