Quote by Andrew Motion
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice Im likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. – Andrew Motion

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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. – Andrew Motion

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

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Poetry
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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? – Sun Tzu

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Imagination

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. – Sean Parker

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Imagination

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora”

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Imagination

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. – Steven Spielberg

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Imagination

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. – Miguel Angel Ruiz

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respect

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. – Author Unknown

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Dancing

Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair… Change my name, just see what happens. – Larry David

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