Quentin Blake Quotes
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
