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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Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.
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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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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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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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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
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In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.
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Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.
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I want to live like music sounds.
