Chris Riddell Quotes

I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.

Chris Riddell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 13, 1962

Topics

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I've been in the shadows my whole career.

Jimmy Napes

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My style icons are Lucille Ball for her bouffant hair and all the updos, James Dean for his rockabilly style - the denim and rolled-up T-shirt thing. And I am also inspired by Dita Von Teese and Gwen Stefani. Their style is retro, but it's still very feminine at the same time.

Andra Day

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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Robert Henri

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I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

Ann Romney

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I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.

Steven Levitt

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Every time humanists try to get a slot on 'Thought For the Day' on Radio 4, they are told it's reserved for 'the faith community,' whatever that is. Yet 'TfT' is almost always pabulum about how God wants us all to love each other and care for the unfortunate. I'm sure humanists would say much the same, without God.

Simon Hoggart

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

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The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.

Martti Ahtisaari

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I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn't end up going to series.

Janet Varney

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I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Brian Blessed

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I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Bong Joon-ho

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