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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People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
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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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Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
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I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.
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Nothing prevents happiness as much as the desire for more.
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Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
