Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to making rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the science of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience.
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Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.
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A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.
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People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.
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Membership of a terrorist group is a serious crime, as is encouraging or supporting terrorism, but Shamima Begum should face justice for those crimes in the UK.
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A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.