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Andrew Motion Quotes

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hope Time Dream Way Write Over

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

Myself Thinking Kid Audience Up

When you're spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it's Dave. They become people to you. I think we're really good in this country about saying that they're homeless and, therefore, they don't exist.

Good People Homeless Saying Think

I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.

House Person My Own Own Even Most

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

Michael Douglas

Makeup Down Movies Off Skeleton

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

Steven Sinofsky

Isolation You Look Person Matter

It is a characteristic of potentates that they don't succumb to peaceful retirement. Instead, they hold power in their hoary fists as judgment and grip weaken, destroying any successors except family members.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Family Power Retirement Peaceful

As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now.

Nature Knowledge Time Football Me

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

Michele Bachmann

I Am Go Fighter Along Get Just

I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

Alone Loved Feel You Unique Others

Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.

Improvement People Black Thinking

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

Christian Slater

Soul Theatre End Tradition Doing

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

Condoleezza Rice

Education Community Racism Parents

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