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Quentin Blake Quotes

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: english
Birth: December 16, 1932

Topics

Success Time Painting Done Always

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.

Jessie Matthews

Time Dance Perfect Numbers Play Big

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Food Culture You Back Say Odds

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years.

Robert P. McCulloch

Police Over Years Them Dozens

I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays and the music - it's done; the material is there. But we talk about it because it's part of the game. I'm comfortable with it.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Music Art Game Think Talking Done

I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian.

Michael Ignatieff

Always Been Canadian

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Love Home Silence Wind You Owl

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

Stephen Leacock

Way Own British Laughing Except

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Wrong Right Always Commander Field

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Think Dirty Crime Sensitive Violent

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Clever My Own Write Own Somebody

I look at my own reservation, the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota - on my reservation, one quarter of our money is spent on energy. All of that money basically goes to off-reservation vendors whether it is for electricity, or whether it is for fuel.

Money Energy Electricity Look Earth

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Government War Effort Wish Early

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