A. A. Milne Quotes
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I've never been a partier.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
