Anthony Browne Quotes
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.
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It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
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Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.
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I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.
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My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.
