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Michael Leunig Quotes

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

Michael Leunig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father World Living Boy Dead Up

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

Jessica Lange

Think Thought Moments You Done Off

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Johan Huizinga

Live Time Short Long You Long Time

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Determination Science History Book

The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

Stephen Hawking

Universe Existence Our Depends

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

Robert Zoellick

Ideas Challenges World Thinking New

The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they're taking 30 points. So clearly, they're viewing what they bring to the table in the digital environment to be more valuable than distribution.

Mitch Lasky

Environment Table More Digital Bring

Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!

Mini Grey

Words People Book Impossible Picture

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

Jason Reitman

Day Red Blue People Decisions You

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

Chris Robinson

Music Early Say Nineties Been Very

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Chuck Berry

Myself Me Judge Mean Praise

Whether you talk about Africa or underbanked communities, these are all examples where Ripple can change the way society works.

Brad Garlinghouse

Change Society Ripple You Way Talk

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.

April Gornik

Love Guitar Magic Admit Steel Top