Jim Woodring Quotes
I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.
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The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
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The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.
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I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
