Quentin Blake Quotes
I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
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I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
