Anthony Browne Quotes

When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.

Anthony Browne

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

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• I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

  

  Orson Welles
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• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

  

  Majel Barrett
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• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
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• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
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• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
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• I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
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• I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.

  

  Kat Graham
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• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.

  

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• Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Me? You can't ask me that question. I sleep.

  

  Darnell Dockett
  • Question
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• It is crazy to have Judith Miller in jail.

  

  Matthew Cooper
  • Crazy

• I was one of those people who wasn't getting a lot of milk, so I had to pump forever to just get two ounces of milk. But, you know, I wasn't going to give up or stop.

  

  Laila Ali
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• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

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• What, in substance, both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the phrase as chanted aloud: 'Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.' … 'In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.' .

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Imagination
  • Son
  • Boy