Chris Riddell Quotes
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
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The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.
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We are not a court - not a judge or jury at work - but we've tried to apply the highest possible standards of rigorous analysis to the evidence where we make a criticism.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
