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'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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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
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Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.
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My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
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There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
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I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.
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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.
