Michael Bond Quotes
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
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To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
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Reason alone does not suffice.
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Quel che l'huom vede Amor gli fa invisibileE l'invisibil fa vedere Amore.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.
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You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
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My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
