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

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

  

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• I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.

  

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• But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.

  

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• For India's economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China's, we need to make our differences into virtues rather than vulnerabilities.

  

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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