John Lasseter Quotes
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.
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I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.
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The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
