Michael Leunig Quotes
God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don't feel the pressure for them.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!
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Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.
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I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.
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I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.
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I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
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I thought Oasis were great.
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Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
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For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
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Uh? They don't like me over here, either.
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In every age and clime we seeTwo of a trade can never agree.
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The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.
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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening next; they mean they are so mesmerised by the writer's voice and the relationship that has been established that they don't want to break that. That's what I feel when I read, and I'm sure now that that's what's going on in the relationship between the reader and the writing.
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God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.
