Andrew Motion Quotes

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

Andrew Motion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeBeautifulMoneyFinanceEating

In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

Jill Scott

BestManMeGrowConfidentYou

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

John Cale

WantMeanKeepGetLeanMinimalist

It's the quality of your relationships that matters.

Robert J. Waldinger

QualityRelationshipsMattersYour

The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none.

Amanda Lindhout

HelpInsuranceNewsCrisisPay

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

Stephen McCauley

HonestyWayResponsibleWriteOnly

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

Tracy Chapman

PathBackI CanSometimesPossible

Trust is a great force multiplier.

Tom Ridge

GreatTrustForce

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.

Roy Wood

PersonPlayMoreBandBigLeft

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

Janis Ian

PeopleBetterUncomfortableWrite

I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form.

Brandon Uranowitz

BeautyLiveArtNew ThingsFunFind

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

Clara Hughes

BeautifulMomentBelieveFeelAlive

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Brian Eno

MusicIdeasYouPlayKindFinish

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