Michael Leunig Quotes
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No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
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I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.
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I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
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Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
