Philip Larkin Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
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I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.
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I just want to ask a question:Who really cares?To save a world in despairThere'll come a time, when the world won't be singin'Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin'Who really cares?Who's willing to try to save a worldThat's destined to die?
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But superstition, like belief, must die...
