Richard Scarry Quotes
I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I consider that the ultimate compliment.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
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I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
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If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.
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That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
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'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
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To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.
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I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.
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I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
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You put choice on the table, you change the whole game. Everything is about control. If an ad is interesting to you, you'll have the conversation with the brand. If it's not, it's a waste of time.
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I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.
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I'm really not tailored for responsibility.
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I want to start really developing more on the film side.
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When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.
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Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.
Dito Montiel -
I'm really resentful (of dad) ..., ... .... I suppose he deserved it. No, I couldn't be prouder.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.
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I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I consider that the ultimate compliment.
