Andrew Motion Quotes

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

Andrew Motion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeWorldAttentionYouLookBack

The best riders in the world with the best horses make it look so elegant and graceful. When you watch it done well, it looks so easy that it's difficult for the public to understand how hard this really is.

Jessica Springsteen

BestWorldEasyYouLookLooks

The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations - for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry - that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.

John Barrasso

WorkPowerEnergyPlanWillClean

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

GraceMeNecessityCreatedThou

Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?

Steven Michael Quezada

BadWhyDramaticComediansMostTV

'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.

Trent Reznor

MusicChallengeMeThoughtEmotions

The best example is the NBA, with high intensity and long breaks. During the season, the NBA teams play every three days. That's a lot, and they also travel far. But from the end of May until October, they have their break.

Toni Kroos

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The Bond situations to me are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy, and yet everybody knows he's a spy.

Roger Moore

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I'm just a very impatient person. It's always something that I'm working on, and just staying interested in the fight game is the biggest challenge for me. As long as I'm interested and I have an incentive to stay interested, then I'm unbeatable.

Rose Namajunas

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I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

Lloyd Banks

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Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.

Jon Krakauer

LifeMistakeBookMy LifeWishYou

There's a guy on YouTube named Mac Lethal - he spits hot fire.

Bobby Moynihan

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I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.

Pierre Coffin

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