Bill Watterson Quotes
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I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.
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Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
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Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.
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When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.
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A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.
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I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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We didn’t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we weren’t at all sure whether we wouldn’t drop dead or something of that nature.
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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You can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings because that was unique to us.
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I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.
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I have no unhappy memories of my childhood.
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No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.
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I think the biggest disservice to the American people was the denial by the networks to air video of the beheading of Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, or the many other hostages that were beheaded in Iraq. We as a society need to see the type of enemy we are fighting. People have been so sheltered in this country that they have not paid attention to what has been going on for the last twenty-some years. And today, even after the attack of September 11, people still cannot fathom that this type of barbarity could happen here.
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It's very important to be curious in a very universal way. Whether someone is poor or rich, I'm curious about everything.
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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
