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 don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
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In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at 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.
