Chris Meledandri Quotes
My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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It's been more than a decade since 'The Real World: Philadelphia' aired. I've grown up. My views have evolved, as has the media landscape.
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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.
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The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
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My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.
