John Lasseter Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
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I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.
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I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
