Quentin Blake Quotes
As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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They say - people who ought to be ashamed of themselves do - that the consciousness of being well dressed imparts a blissfulness to the human heart that religion is powerless to bestow. I am afraid these cynical persons are sometimes correct.
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I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.
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One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
