Quentin Blake Quotes
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
Quotes to Explore
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care … TCB Sock it to me, Sock it to me, Sock it to me.
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For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
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When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
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I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.
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I am very thankful for this opportunity. It is a privilege and honor for me to follow in the footsteps of my father. Everywhere he's gone, he's been full of integrity and passion. That's what I want to carry on.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
