Philip Larkin Quotes
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.
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One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.
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The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people.
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My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.
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It’s Adria’s face I see when I think of home.
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I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.