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Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

~Edward Carey

Topics: Before Being Children Danger Dark Fairy Fairy Tales Feels Having Kids Like Love Neil Patronizing Plenty Room Tales Things Think Too Very Were I Think

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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Any Attention Being Complex Complexity Could Dealing Energy Inefficient Justification Mental Never Simple Things Time Unnecessary Waste Waste Of Time

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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Acquire Any Being Danger Dependent Identity People Self-Image Sense Themselves Think Thinkers Young Young People I Think

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I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

~Edward Dmytryk

Topics: Been Being Believed Career Communist Communist Party Defense Dislike Distrust Family Forced Grown Had Long Party Sacrifice Separated Which

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I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

~Edward E. Barnard

Topics: About Been Being Certainly Detail Drawing Elevated Full Greatly Large Mars Mountains No Question Question Surface Watching Wonderfully

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Being an immigrant and living in England, I feel like I lived in two worlds. There was the world that, when I was at school with my friends, was very English, and then I'd go home to another country, with exotic foods and colours. I have a sense of colour pairings, and that came from my background, I think.

~Edward Enninful

Topics: Another Background Being Came Colour Colours Country England English Exotic Feel Foods Friends Go Go Home Home Immigrant Like Lived Living School Sense Then Think Two Very World Worlds I Think I Feel I Feel Like

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My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.

~Edward Enninful

Topics: About Being Body Class Different Diversity Gender Inclusive Races Shapes Showing Tackling Vogue Women

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A lot of my friends, we all grew up sort of not very wealthy. And in England, whatever ends up being a negative, that's a positive.

~Edward Enninful

Topics: Being Ends England Friends Grew Lot Negative Positive Sort Up Very Wealthy Whatever

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Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave.

~Edward Enninful

Topics: America Being Brave Celebrated Free Growing Growing Up Home Imagery Land Loved Saw Up

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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Topics: Always Being Duty Fancy Good Good Time Luck Name Our Ready Sure Thing Time

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