Anthony Browne Quotes
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.
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I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.
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The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy.
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I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
