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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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Andrew Motion
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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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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

If you dont pay attention and if your imagination isnt pretty much engaged, youre going to miss things and youre going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be. – Bruce Greenwood

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Imagination

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. – Terry Brooks

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Imagination

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. – Colleen McCullough

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Imagination

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Excuses

The non-specific response of the body to any demand for change. – Hans Selye

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Stress

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as theyre old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that its enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it. – Jean Anouilh

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Men

Maybe theres a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people. – Robert Altman

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Humor