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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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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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I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. – Andrew Motion

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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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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? – Ernst Toller

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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. – Theodore Gericault

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Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring. – Terri Guillemets

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I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. – Gilda Radner

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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeares characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. – Kenneth Branagh

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