Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
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Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.
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I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.
