John Lasseter Quotes
Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
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Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
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Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.
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If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
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I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
