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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
-
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.
-
Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
-
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
-
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
-
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.
-
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
-
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.
-
I do suspect that this world is hell.
-
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.
-
I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
-
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.
-
Fear is the passion of slaves.
-
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.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
-
I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
-
Enough of this intolerable inanity! I propose that such loquacity passes beyond the scope of the nuisance and over the verge of turpitude.
-
I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
-
Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
-
I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.
-
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.
