John Lasseter Quotes
Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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If you go through the regular process of the House and Senate passing companion bills and then try and work out differences in the conference, maybe we can get something done.
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I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.
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I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.
