John Lasseter Quotes
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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Desire creates its own object.
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There are no secrets - I've been fighting around 154 lbs and 155 lbs, so I feel comfortable at this weight. This is my weight class.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
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Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
