John Lasseter Quotes
The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'
Quotes to Explore
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I love my sleep.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.
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Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.
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There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.
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In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents.
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I just am a huge fan of PBS. They've taken great risks from great shows.
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The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'
