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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One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.
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We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
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The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I grew up watching Letterman, 'Seinfeld,' 'SNL,' and Monty Python movies. But nothing made me want to get into comedy more than when 'Mr. Show' started airing.
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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.
