Shaun Tan Quotes

The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.

Shaun Tan

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WordsMePicturesBecauseLastText

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

Jerry Della Femina

HappyTaxNowFairRightPay

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Anatole France

ManCuriosityVirtueGreatest

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

Matt LeBlanc

MeetingsYouNothingThroughSit

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

Amelia Warner

AmazingBridgeYouLondonSeeMuch

Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.

Rithvik Dhanjani

LoveGoodEndingStoryDoingFilm

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

Lucy Hawking

FutureSpaceThinkEarthGoBeyond

The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. It's an obsession that they have.

Lou Doillon

AgeTimeKnowBearObsessionDegree

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Lord Byron

EvilMysteryWhereMustAlso

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

Debbie Ford

LifeServiceSupportPeopleMy Life

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

Chester Himes

MeWritingStoryThoughtAmerican

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

Cheyenne Jackson

LoveNew YorkMeBabyPlaceNew

To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.

Phyllis Smith

LoveOpportunityGreatMeDoneJust

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