Natalie Babbitt Quotes
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I am healthy and happy.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm not graceful.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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For me, 'Angels in America' is not really about AIDS. For me, it's a metaphor for anybody who is struggling with serious illness or having to face their own demise. All of the characters face some form of destruction in themselves.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
