Simon Armitage Quotes
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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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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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
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Money is just a way of keeping score.
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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I care more than - you cannot believe how much I care! I want to help somebody!
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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
