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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If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
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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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Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be
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Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover. A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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It's emotional as well as economic, practical as well as personal, tangible as well as intangible.
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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
