Anthony Browne Quotes

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

Anthony Browne

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• I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Peace
  • Wilderness
  • Empire

• I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Fight

• I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Always
  • Fan
  • Been

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Job
  • Plant
  • Grateful

• I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Day
  • Couple

• The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Important
  • Happiness

• It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Mean

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Self

• The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Faith
  • Traditions

• In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • You
  • Growing
  • Stop

• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Small
  • Church

• I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Band
  • Road

• By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self – forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Band
  • Listening
  • Son

• The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Passion
  • Son
  • Salvation

• Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Son