Philip Larkin Quotes
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.
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AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives significant bandwidth, and the iPhone drives significant bandwidth, and so I think it's a very logical fit.
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Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
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Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
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I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
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You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.
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A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
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That which I am, I am; I did not seekFor life, nor did I make myself.
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Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.
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It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.
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I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
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Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
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The most important job in life is being a mom.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
