Anthony Browne Quotes
I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.

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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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Sometimes people can be wary of standing up... but I don't have a problem doing that.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I'm moving forward and getting new fans at every show.
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
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When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.
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I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.