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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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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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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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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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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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
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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.
