Quote by Andrew Motion
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being sur

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 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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Imagination
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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of difficult poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and theres room for difficult poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry wont be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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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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One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. – William Feather

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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. – Clarence Day

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Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation. – Sanjay Kumar

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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. – Ben Stein

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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. – John Clayton

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