Eva Ibbotson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
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The majority of my audience has always been women.
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security!
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The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.
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There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.
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I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.
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I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
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When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'
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I want to live like music sounds.
