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Philip Larkin Quotes

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Philip Larkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: August 9, 1922 - December 2, 1985

Topics

Wife Sleep American You Understand

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

Jeremy Renner

Gambling Stock Market Will Never

Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.

Andy Behrman

Depression People Think Reality You

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Maya Lin

Art Architecture Yourself Me You

We are a company built for fair and open trade.

John L. Flannery

Fair Company Open Trade Built

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

John Maeda

Man Simplicity Early Career Complex

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

Merce Cunningham

Work Fear Me Looking Thought Way

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

Amanda Seyfried

You Just Word Pronounce Use

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.

Tom Selleck

Character Feel Important Land Mean

I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'

Tom Brokaw

Family Good Care Internet Want Kind

It's profound to watch a little African-American girl light up when she raps as George Washington and she realizes that Washington's story is her story. That this history belongs to all of us.

Rory O'Malley

Girl History Light Story Washington

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

Minnie Driver

Step You Way Box Out Playing

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

Jules Asner

Child Basketball You Play Never