Joel Chandler Harris Quotes
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I cook chicken for a living.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.
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You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
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Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
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And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.
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This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you.
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We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
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All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
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Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.
