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Dick Bruna

"I have been drawing all my life."

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"I have been drawing all my life."

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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

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"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

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"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

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"Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!"

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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
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"Each book first begins with a little idea."
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"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
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"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
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"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."
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"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
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"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
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"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
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