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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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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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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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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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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If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
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I would never stay under circumstances where I felt I was a figurehead and might look good in your team media guide. I don't want to be that. I do want to contribute, and if I don't contribute, I'll walk away from it. If I don't feel welcomed, I'll walk away from it.
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I'm just here for this one purpose, and that's to try and get better each and every day and try and win as much as I can, while I can.
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We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
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Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn't mean that you don't work together in a constructive way.
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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.
