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Anthony Browne Quotes

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: September 11, 1946

Topics

Work Always Line Outsider British

I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

Good Birds Two Always Up Lived

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

Jessica Chastain

Women You Connection Acting Actor

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

Cool Golf You Bad Play Much

Money is not a fund of knowledge.

Knowledge Money Fund

Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

Space World Believe Fighting Problem

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

Competition Believe True I Believe

When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.

Fitness Road Exercise Break Cardio

What Trump has done is tap into a deep-seated anxiety about where the country is headed. There is an anxiety that is real and sincere. Many people feel helpless.

Jeff Fortenberry

People Feel Anxiety Country Done

Mankind invents things to fight about.

Fight Things Mankind About

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

Journey Calm Help Important Now

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

Love Amazing Think Career Done Want

On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role on '3rd Rock From the Sun;' I've been deeply afraid of the idea of a crossover ever since.

Christopher Lloyd

Sun Week Play Rock Grammar Afraid

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