Philip Larkin Quotes
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
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I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
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I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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The boots of the men clump On the boards of the bridge. The first white wall of the village Rises through fruit-trees. Of what was it I was thinking? So the meaning escapes.
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The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.
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Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
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I don’t think this dance is suitable for weddings. This is not a formal dance, this is a cheesy dance! But still, I appreciate that.
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You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.
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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
