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"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."
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"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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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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"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
Thought
"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."
Thought
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Business
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"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."
Creativity
"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
Family
"Each book first begins with a little idea."
Creativity
"I have been drawing all my life."
Life
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