Joe Meno Quotes
What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
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Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
