Quentin Blake Quotes

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Society
  • Respect
  • End

• The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Money
  • Enjoy
  • Making Money

• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Day
  • Happen
  • Late

• We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Dream
  • Difficult
  • Ahead

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Man
  • Friend
  • Do The Right Thing

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Years
  • Beach
  • Now

• Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Boy
  • Flow

• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • War
  • Politics
  • Tool

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Need
  • Structure

• You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Happy
  • Act
  • Be Happy

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Movies
  • Only
  • Ruin

• I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Men
  • Home
  • Beer

• I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Balance

• I just want to sound different than everyone else. I don't care if it sounds bad. I just want people to be like, 'Yo, that dude Benny was different.' Even if it sounds awful, at least they can't say, 'Oh well, I've heard that before.'

  

  Benny Blanco
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

  

  James Franco
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.

  

  John Sulston
  • Children
  • School
  • She

• I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Teacher
  • Got
  • Only