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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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
