Philip Reeve Quotes
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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Mourn Not The Dead
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Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!
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I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.
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We are our children's first teachers.
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If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.
