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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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Thus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has created his own story, and now I'm creating mine.
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We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.
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Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
