Anthony Browne Quotes
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
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People take things so seriously.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
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We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.
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Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
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Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
