Quentin Blake Quotes
I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.
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But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
