Mac Barnett Quotes
It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.
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If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?
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A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
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It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.
