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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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 learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
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This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
