Andrew Motion Quotes

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Andrew Motion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

Joe Namath

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Mrs. Palin is history in a dress. And her script is straight out of Hollywood - like those teen movies with the cliched ending featuring the female valedictorian delivering the speech of a lifetime projecting a bold and transformative future with an independent-minded woman in charge.

Andrew Breitbart

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But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

Robert Mueller

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I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.

John Sandford

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Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

Tony Stewart

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You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

Robert Ben Garant

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Ultimately, I ended up playing for three NFL teams. That's something I'm proud of, just to get to that level.

Jordan Rodgers

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My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

Christie Hefner

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I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.

Christine McVie

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It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.

Bob Latta

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It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

Brie Larson

YourselfThinkYouJudgingHardSee

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

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