Andrew Motion Quotes
Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.Andrew Motion
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie -
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac -
Music is my release.
Ed Westwick -
Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
Garret Dillahunt -
There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
Palmer Luckey -
What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
Ted Deutch
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
Walter Smith -
The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
Narendra Modi -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster -
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi -
I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
Ida Lupino
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
Caity Lotz -
My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
Flip Wilson -
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
Carlos Ghosn -
If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
Kate Hudson
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin -
That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
Damian Lewis -
I love you, what star do you live on?
Conrad Aiken -
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
Jacqueline Bisset -
Just to be able to say you're No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat.
Jason Day -
Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.
Andrew Motion