Kate Beaton Quotes
I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.
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I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.
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Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
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Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
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I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.
