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 definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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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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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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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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You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
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I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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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.
