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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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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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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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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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklins Courant, it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing Americas last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. – Eric Alterman

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Imagination

Well, Im not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself. – Rashida Jones

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Imagination

I guess what Ive learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. Its limitless. – Cliff Martinez

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Imagination

Its what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places its never been before. Theres nothing better than that. – Robin Wright Penn

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Imagination

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Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. – Arnold Bennett

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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. – Anne Lamott

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I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do. – Faye Dunaway

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