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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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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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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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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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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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
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I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.
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I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.
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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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When we got the lead, it was a surprise for the American team.
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My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.
