Anthony Browne As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. – Anthony Browne Book Quotes Boy Quotes Comics Quotes Devoured Quotes Picture Quotes I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we’d travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire. Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to ‘Gorilla.’ It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
Marilyn Monroe No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t. – Marilyn Monroe
Jill Lepore In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. – Jill Lepore
Keith Gessen Being a Russian oligarch these days isn’t easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after feasting on leverage during the commodities boom, now have tummies full of debt. – Keith Gessen
Ashley Olsen I don’t have to be a pretty face. I’ve done that, but now it’s important and liberating to be on the other side of the lens. I don’t like to be the center of attention anymore. – Ashley Olsen
Hideo Kojima If ‘Castlevania’ wasn’t created next to me, and Capcom didn’t release ‘Ghouls n’ Goblins,’ then maybe there wouldn’t be any ‘Metal Gear,’ and I would have created a horror action game, because I really like that genre. – Hideo Kojima
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