Anthony Browne Quotes
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
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The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
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We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon on that level is overwhelming. It's pretty big shoes to fill, you know. I'm a size eight, but I'll try my best.
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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These voices blame the Middle East's only democracy for the region's extremism. They offer the false promise that abandoning a stalwart ally is somehow the path to strength. It is not, it never has been, and it never will be.
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He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.
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All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.
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Believe, obey, fight.
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We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: 'In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past.'
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My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
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I am a huge romantic at heart.
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As Obama prepares to begin the last year of his presidency, he stands in an unusual position on the national stage: He is the rationalist, a creature of intellect rather than emotion.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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It's really sad down there. Everyone's sitting around asking to help and BP won't let anybody do anything. People are coming down to help. People want to help.
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It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.
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Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.
