Simon Armitage Quotes
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.
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Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.
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You must begin by deciding what problems your products can solve for customers.
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In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
