Bill Peet Quotes
Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.
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'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.
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I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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I think nobody can block me. Nobody can stop me.
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I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...
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If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.
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Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
