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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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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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.
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My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.
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You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.
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Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.
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The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.
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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.
