Andrew Motion Quotes
Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.
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I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.
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If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.
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What I'm absolutely certain of is, every day we delay in accessing that Asia-Pacific region, the more we lose economically.
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Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
