Chris Riddell Quotes
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.
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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
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I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.
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The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
