Philip Reeve Quotes
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.
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One of the great joys of my life post-'Friends' has been being approached by Asian women who have told me how much it meant to see an Asian face on their TV screen when they were growing up.
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Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?
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I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
