Chris Riddell Quotes
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
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I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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We thank God that our enemies are idiots. (6 February 2006) 10
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We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
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The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'
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Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
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I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.
