Pete Docter Quotes
Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these cool fun hats from Europe I have. I love to collect different ones from every country. I have them from London to Brussels.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me, that's enough.
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I'm proud to say I'm a role model for kids.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.
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Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids.
