"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."

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"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Thought, People

"The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do."

Michael Caine, English Actor

Thought, First, Want

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Thought, Thoughts, Joy, Mind, Shadow

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Thought, Action

"One thought fills immensity."

William Blake, English Poet

Thought,

"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Thought, Imagery, Desire, Goal

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Thought, Jean Jacques Rousseau

"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Thought, Thoughts, Act, Joy, Shadow

"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

Thought, Act, Children, Nothing

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"I rather like getting away from fiction."

Fiction

"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."

Family

"I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not."

Change

"I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years."

Family

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."

Past

"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."

Choice

"I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one."

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do."

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"One thought fills immensity."

"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

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"I rather like getting away from fiction."

"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."

"I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not."

"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

"I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation."

"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."

"I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years."

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."

"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."

"I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one."