Dave Filoni Quotes
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I want to play interesting women.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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We care about margins.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
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With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
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I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.
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We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.
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When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
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Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.
