Anthony Browne Quotes
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.
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I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.
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Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
