"It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children."

-- Kingsley Amis

#Inspirational Quotes #Children Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'”
“When you assume responsibility for what you experience and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship, that is the same as forgiveness. When you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you lose power.”
“Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly from the source into song mode. As a composer, it may be fortuitous. What I feel is what you get.”
“I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.”
“A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.”
“Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.”
“I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.”
“A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as oneâ€™s thoughts change. And when itâ€™s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it”

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