John Lasseter Quotes
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
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I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
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There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.
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The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
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I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research-I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories...
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If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.
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I love working for a company full of geeks.
