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"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."
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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
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"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."
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"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."
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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."
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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."
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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."
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"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
Animals
"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together."
Work
"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."
Animals
"If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth."
Character design
"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
Reading
"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."
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"Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke."
Selling
"Each character represented a trait that resides in me."
Character
"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."
Job
"The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out."
Love
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