"When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like and what colors predominate. I do not do research as much as just get ideas and ask people about things."

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Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

Jan Brett

#Country Quotes #Color Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
“The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.”
“Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.”

Source : James Q. Wilson (1997). “The Moral Sense”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
“It shouldn't matter WHO you love; it should matter HOW you love. As long as you love someone with all your heart, than that's all that truly matters.”
“Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.”
“But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.”
“A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.”

Source : Lee Lockwood, Daniel Berrigan (1972). “Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood”, New York : Random House
“Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.”

Source : Source: soccerlens.com

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