Walt Kelly Quotes
I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.
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Childhood reading is so important.
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
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Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?
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I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.
