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Michael Leunig Quotes

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: australian
Birth: June 2, 1945

Topics

Mother Baby Duck You Know Will

Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.

Change Great Change The World Team

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

Job Frustration Face Meet Protect

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

You Know Nothing Known

I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.

People Door Think Take Middle-Aged

I've been very fortunate. I'm doing what I love, and I'm getting away with it, you know?

Love Doing You Know Fortunate Been

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

People Mind Product Wonderful People

I like to play golf, but not at a country club.

Golf Country Play Club Like

There's jerks, and there's villains. Villains, I think, are very aware of who they are and what they're doing and their effect on the world. Jerks tend to think they're great guys.

Great World Think Doing Aware Jerks

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Marvin Hamlisch

Music Song You Say Run Film

I'm pretty relaxed on what people should be able to do as long as they're not hurting anybody else.

People Long Pretty Relaxed Able

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

Mother Me Book Computers Page Three

I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.

Style Best Feel Trying Possible Up

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