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I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' ↗

— Andrew Motion

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When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#inside #mine #names #now #out

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#downs #effective #effective way #far #giving

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot. ↗

— Sonny Terry

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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ↗

— Sonny Terry

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How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows. ↗

— Bob Mould

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My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

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I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

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