John Kricfalusi Quotes
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.John Kricfalusi
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison -
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
Eden Riegel -
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
Bart Stupak -
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Dan Fogelberg
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
Vanity -
It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
Rami Malek -
I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
Dan Brown -
Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
Cameron Diaz -
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
Rae Carson -
I don't really see myself as an actor.
Youssou N'Dour -
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda -
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
Ian Rankin -
I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
Felicity Jones
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I want to get one thing straight right from the start: I am not a natural-born jock. I am about as intrinsically athletic as an oyster, with the innate grace and sporty prowess of a brick—a very cute oyster and a very intelligent brick, if I do say so myself, but oysterly and bricklike nevertheless.
Hanne Blank -
I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
Danger Mouse -
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
Barry Manilow -
I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.
Marvin Minsky -
I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and kids are just funny.
David M. Evans -
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
John Kricfalusi