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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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Im not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Andrew Motion
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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 dont make enough money. – Andrew Motion

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finance
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Imagination

I cant work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free. – Andrew Wyeth

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Imagination

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man. – Bruno Rossi

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Imagination

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesnt leave a whole lot to the imagination. I dont have a problem with it because of the way this characters been written. – Jeri Ryan

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Imagination

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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. – W. Somerset Maugham

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

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Nature

The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. Its eclectic but above all its fresh, inventive and creative and thats what I love about it. – Baz Luhrmann

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When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dads limp – my dad was my hero – but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it. – David Alan Grier

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dad