Anthony Browne Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.
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I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
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Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.
