Quentin Blake Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
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A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
