Quentin Blake Quotes
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.
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I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
