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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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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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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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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I'm all about people that appreciate, that are grateful, that smile, that have a sense of humour - the dirtier the laugh, the better- that's my kind of vibe... and I hope that's the kind of thing that I attract.
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I'd love to be on a show like 'ER.' Just watching it is like, 'Phew.' I loved watching 'Veronica Mars.' 'Buffy' was a big... I loved 'Buffy.' I would go out of my way to watch 'Buffy.'
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The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.
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I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.
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As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.
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My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
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That's kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.
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Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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I want to live like music sounds.
