Dave Filoni Quotes
Pressure, to me, was creating a 'Star Wars' film, then sitting alone in a theater with George Lucas and showing it to him, the guy that created the word 'Wookiee' and R2-D2. That was pressure.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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Whoever invented the word ‘grace’ must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
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That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
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I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.
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I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
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Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
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Pressure, to me, was creating a 'Star Wars' film, then sitting alone in a theater with George Lucas and showing it to him, the guy that created the word 'Wookiee' and R2-D2. That was pressure.
