Simon Armitage Quotes
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I need to work to feel well.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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I would read all day if I could.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
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I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
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I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other.
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
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If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
