Joe Johnston Quotes
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
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People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.
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I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
