Andrew Motion Quotes
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
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Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like this is that you can become sort of self-obsessed. There's so much praise being given to you - there's a real threat of exalting the ego.
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I do think there will be a better understanding between the two sides - East and West. And eventually, the so-called two sides will disappear, and there will only be the conflict between those with power and those without it.
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
