David Walliams Quotes
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.
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It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.
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... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
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I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.
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People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
