Dave Filoni Quotes
I've been very fortunate in animation - when I get on a project, people tend to keep me, so I have long stays of work rather than bouncing around.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
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One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room.
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Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.
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A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.
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I've been very fortunate in animation - when I get on a project, people tend to keep me, so I have long stays of work rather than bouncing around.
