Jan Brett Quotes
I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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It's good to mind about things but not to give it too much weight, because there are some things you cannot change.
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You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
