Giles Andreae Quotes

I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

Giles Andreae

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 16, 1966

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Democracy is not what we don't want. Democracy is what we do want. It is a set of affirmative values by which we can move forward. If we cannot insert our values into our vote, and our vote is simply against what we fear most, then we are a ship lost at sea.

Jill Stein

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Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

Jessica Savitch

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All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.

Jerry Hall

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When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

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Paul Rudd is ripped.

Michael Douglas

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Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.

John Podhoretz

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We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

Steve Irwin

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I'm lucky I get to work a lot.

Stephen Root

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I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first place, and to write things that might be controversial. I've wasted a lot of time worrying about it: am I tough enough to do it? Well, I guess, or I wouldn't have done it. The day it's too difficult for me, I guess I'll stop.

Rosemary Mahoney

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I wrote a song for my sister's wedding.

Lou Barlow

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I play a lot of basketball.

Josh Peck

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