Andrew Motion Quotes
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Once a week, someone tells me to toughen up, get a sharper edge. I don't do that.
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An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.
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I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
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And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that's a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I've watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
