Quotes by Peter Sis - Page 1

My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.
Peter Sis /
Last Time
Tibet
Documented
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How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?
Peter Sis /
Visualize
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I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.
Peter Sis /
Comfortable
Comfortable Life
Destroyed
Prison
Families
Spent
Whose
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I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
Peter Sis /
Prague
Return
Accent
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I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.
Peter Sis /
Complicated
Just One
Lots
Hidden
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If I would use anything from 'The Little Prince,' even some little quote, it's all copyrighted in France. Like Walt Disney in this country, it's a national treasure.
Peter Sis /
France
Treasure
Walt
Disney
Quote
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The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.
Peter Sis /
Movement
Needed
Me Free Always
Symbol
Wherever
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I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.
Peter Sis /
Dedicated
Goodness
Tribute
Man I Am People
Pilot
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Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.
Peter Sis /
Designer
Unlikely
Window
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When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.
Peter Sis /
Admire
Little Children
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I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.
Peter Sis /
Apples
Bananas
Always Where Long
Ate
Eats
Ended
Remembering
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People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'
Peter Sis /
Age
Bears
Book
Teddy
Age Group
Flowers
Group
Realize
They Say
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I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.
Peter Sis /
Add
Blank
Items
Notes
Postcards
Visual
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I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.
Peter Sis /
Disaster
Author
Editor
In The Beginning
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When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.
Peter Sis /
Intriguing
Limelight
Illustrate
Stepping
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