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Andrew Motion Quotes

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Name You Want Kind Way

We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.

Self Dark Shadows Now Out Come

I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.

God Small Think Look Dream Way

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Best Compassion World Thought Place

If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief that when I do melo scenes, I try to make them less cheesy.

Life Myself Think Acting Say Belief

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

Best You Well Might Steal Writers

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

Woman Name Someone You Bad Nervous

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

History Man Me White India Up

That's the thing: I'm not opposed to working with people. I'm just not one of these people that feels the need to hop around the industry and get this guy's beat and get this guy's hook.

People Need Beat Industry Guy Get

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Michel de Montaigne

World Way Follow Laws Make Custom

The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society.

Society American Modern Us Simply

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Sympathy Easy Sorrow Hard Tell

What attracted me to 'Eclipse' was that it is a great story and a tremendous challenge for me as a filmmaker.

Great Challenge Me Story Filmmaker

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