Quentin Blake Quotes
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
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I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
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Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.
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My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.
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One of the most dysfunctional beliefs of successful people is our contempt for simplicity and structure. We believe that we are above needing structure to help us on seemingly simple tasks.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
