Michael Bond Quotes
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.
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How could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably
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I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.
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Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo
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A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
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I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.
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Sleep, my little one, sleep.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
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In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.
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We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.
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They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.
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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.
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We can't escape the prose of life, it's all about balance.
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...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.
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I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.
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Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.
