A. A. Milne Quotes

'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'

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• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

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• In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

  

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• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

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• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

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• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

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• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

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• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

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• I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

  

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• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

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• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

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• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

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• When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

  

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• People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

  

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• The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

  

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• If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

  

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• Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

  

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• I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

  

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• That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

  

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• 'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.

  

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• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

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• As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

  

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• 'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'

  

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