Anthony Browne
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RUTH RENDELL With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t... JACQUES VILLENEUVE My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a... P. L. TRAVERS My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to ... DOMINIC CHIANESE My sister lives with my family because she has separated from her husband and my older brother had d... MAHEN SHARMA As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio... GEORGE MULLER I have been changing my diet on my own. I haven't had any salt in the last month, and I cut out caff... DANA QUIGLEY My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. JAMES RAINWATER ROBERT WINSTON My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, wa... MICHAEL ASHCROFT SAM SHEPARD We came in and had a set goal in mind. We knew what we had to do was control the tempo. I knew I had... DENA SANTORO I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look... BRUCE PALTROW My father felt he had no choice. I felt that given time, something could have been worked out and th... DAVID BEHRING IRENE ROSENFELD JAMES ELLROY I really wanted to be on the high school team this year. My brother was on it and my father was the ... JOE ATWOOD BILL MURRAY My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pac... WALTER KOHN My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI ROMA DOWNEY I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of ... DAVID H. KOCH JHUMPA LAHIRI My brother died at age 42 of a heart problem. My mother had had a stroke. I took a look at what was ... MAUREEN KENNEDY Both my father and grandfather were entrepreneurs, in Cleveland. I was exposed to startups and buyou... JIM KUNEVICIUS CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ALICE SEBOLD I remember coming home from seeing Star Wars for the first time with my older brother, ... We talked... ROY MCDONALD My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He... LYNETTE FROMME My father-in-law had an anvil and he gave it to me. I noticed it had a name on it. I thought that wa... CORKY HELMS My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the... GARRY HYNES As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th... SUNIL MITTAL I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro... JOSEPH ABBOUD It was my last option there. He was practically holding me down in the front, so I had to go behind ... MATT POSKAY SHELDON LEE GLASHOW I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y... BERNIE MAC I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe... KIKI DEE HELMUT SCHMIDT Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through... ADRIAN PETERSON RYAN REYNOLDS SPIKE MILLIGAN SPIKE MILLIGAN QUEEN LATIFAH ARLEN SPECTER T. D. JAKES DIANNA AGRON I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, so I just kept s... AUSTEN ARNAUD TORI AMOS NICK CANNON Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brot... RANI MUKERJI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice... LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ... JAMES GANDOLFINI DAVID MCCULLOUGH My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond... MAIRA KALMAN My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m... BRIAN COX Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my... DORIS EATON TRAVIS I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and lovin... SAM SHEPPARD NICKI MINAJ CHRISTINA AGUILERA JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK BUFFALO BILL FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI III My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer... JERMAINE DUPRI I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father... DAVID CHARVET BENIGNO AQUINO III I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age. ABEL FERRARA I couldn't let how the team was doing affect my mindset on my rehabilitation because I sort of belie... TEDY BRUSCHI The reality was my staff and I had every intention of coming back. We thought we had a pretty decent... JEFF ALTCHECH YAYA DACOSTA CALVIN COOLIDGE My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go... MAX VON SYDOW I was mad I got in foul trouble the past two games. But my team had my back in those games. Coach to... MARCEDES WALKER My father had very strict rules about girlfriends. We just weren't allowed to share the stage. And w... 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Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. ANTHONY BROWNE The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of... ANTHONY BROWNE Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations. ANTHONY BROWNE After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine wha... ANTHONY BROWNE Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life. ANTHONY BROWNE From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt fi... ANTHONY BROWNE As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. ANTHONY BROWNE Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk ... ANTHONY BROWNE Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time ... ANTHONY BROWNE As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome ... ANTHONY BROWNE One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue ... ANTHONY BROWNE The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, t... ANTHONY BROWNE Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture ... ANTHONY BROWNE Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still... ANTHONY BROWNE I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too l... ANTHONY BROWNE Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I h... ANTHONY BROWNE As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books wit... ANTHONY BROWNE What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures ca... ANTHONY BROWNE As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without real... ANTHONY BROWNE The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. 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My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. 
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