Brian Selznick Quotes
A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.
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Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.
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I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.
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Being a winger or a wide mid, I have to run continuously for 90 minutes, which not only takes endurance but also strength in my legs to be able to be explosive for 90 minutes. I think weight training has really allowed me to sustain for those 90 minutes.
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The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
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A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.
