Anthony Browne Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
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I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.
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Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.
