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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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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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've always been writing.
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The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.
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The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
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There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
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I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.
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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.
