Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes
Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.
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Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.
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I have a lot of Missoni tablecloths, but for breakfast, we use placemats - we call them 'American-style.' I have some in crazy patterns from the Swedish brand Svenskt Tenn. And I like plates from Grottaglie in Puglia, stained in wild colors.
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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.
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Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
