Berkeley Breathed Quotes
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
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Quotes to Explore
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Nash Grier
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
Walter Murch
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
Majora Carter
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Patrick Modiano
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
Salman Rushdie
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If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul; that alone matters; it is that which the sculptor or painter should seek beneath the mask of features.
Auguste Rodin
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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!
Florence Nightingale
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The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.
David Oyelowo
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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
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