Anthony Browne Quotes
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I would never do 'Playboy.'
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I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
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I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
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The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.
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Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
