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.
Garry Kasparov -
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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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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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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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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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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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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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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I don't really have a bad premiere experience. They're exciting at first. I think, when you first get into the business, you're excited about going down the line and seeing what that's like.
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We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
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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.
