Chris Riddell Quotes
School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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Justice is revenge.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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To be able to get a football team that's capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all.
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School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.
