John Lasseter Quotes
When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.
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I will keep working hard!
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.
