Andrew Motion Quotes

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

Andrew Motion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 26, 1952

Topics

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It's nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.

Anderson Cooper

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Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

Ruby Rose

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Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

Jason Moran

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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

Diana Gabaldon

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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

Dick Gregory

MotherMilkCoconutPlanetOnly

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Douglas Coupland

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Carlos Sosa, the saxophone player for Zac Brown Band, and I worked up two songs for 'When You're Feeling Sick.' They were a blast to work on. The songs are real upbeat and silly.

Coy Bowles

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I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

Atom Egoyan

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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

Alice Waters

BeautifulBe PreparedDifferentBasic

I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.

Suzanne Collins

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When my dad hit 40, he quit everything. He sold the house and bought the boat and went off sailing the world. I was on that boat from age 12 to 18. We didn't actually go around the world. We went pretty much from France through the whole Mediterranean basin. We went to Ireland first. We also went to coast of Africa, South America and the Caribbean.

Sebastian Roche

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