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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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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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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Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
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The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
