Blake Morrison Quotes
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
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Noble be man, helpful and good!
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Her time with him had very quickly started to feel unreal so that she could hardly believe her own memory of it.
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Children are capable of such open rudeness.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.
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The selective memory isn't selective enough.
