Philip Kerr Quotes
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
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Tell that to the marines-the sailors won't believe it.
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When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
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But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.
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Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the social contract with our fellow citizens at home brings unique rights and responsibilities that must sometimes take precedence, especially when they are as destitute as the world's poorest people.
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Sport seems to be much more important to people than politics.
