Carl Honore Quotes

Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Carl Honore

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LoveJourneyParentingParentsSlow

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

Robert Gottlieb

LoveBookFalling In LoveFalling

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Tom Lenk

LoveChocolateDarkInventionPretty

The little town I was brought up in, I'd go to the film society to these very extreme sorts of films that you wouldn't normally see in the movie houses. But I never dreamed that I would get into the position to be shooting movies equivalent to the ones I loved as a kid.

Roger Deakins

SocietyLovedYouGoMoviesNever

Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

Mary Beard

WorldConversationTryTalkAncient

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Jaron Lanier

TechnologyLostContactOwnOriginal

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

Joseph Rotblat

SecurityArgumentNuclear Weapons

I'm extraordinarily lucky to have so many friends across such a diverse group of people. One day I'll be at Oxford, the next at some complete idiot's lunch.

David Tang

DayPeopleLunchFriendsIdiotNext

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

Anne Hathaway

TruthMeGrowing UpYouPrincess

Character is a journey, not a destination.

William J. Clinton

CharacterJourneyDestination

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

Pete Stark

SmartWarCityMeThinkTerrorism

White Americans have a short memory.

Sherman Alexie

MemoryShortWhiteShort Memory

I got fired from Neiman Marcus and Bergdorfs, and JC Penney didn't work out.

Nick Wooster

WorkOutFiredGotWork Out

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