Quentin Blake Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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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.
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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.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.
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Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
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I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
