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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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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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.
